On 6 Aug 2001, at 10:13, Ray Dillinger wrote:
Offhand, I'd estimate that if three US remops were taken down forcefully, and the federal law looked as though any other could be, all but two or three hardcases would cease operating remailers in the USA.
Depends on exactly what you mean by "taken down forcefully". If you just mean forced to cease operations without additional repercussions, I think it's more likely that more would pop up.
That would wipe out well over 70% of the remailers, leaving a very small universe indeed to monitor.
Bear
Just speculation, or course, but I suspect there are quite a few people out there who would be willing and able to run remailers but don't bother doing it because there's no perceived need and no real payoff. I believe in principle a mixmaster network really only needs two remailers to exist to function properly. George