On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 04:30 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Criminals love privacy, they love anonymity. Remailer operators soon find that a substantial majority of the messages they send contain nothing but harrassment and threats.
Just how would the remailer operators find this out? Are you implying that Remops read the mail passing through their machines?
Few customers use anonymity services for positive purposes, to protect their privacy while engaging in legitimate activities.
How do you know?
With most people, if they have nothing to hide, they don't hide it.
Everyone has something to hide. Everyone.
Only paranoids and extremists will adopt anonymity technologies without nefarious purposes in mind. Anyone proposing to offer new services for privacy and anonymity should be prepared to deal with the onslaught of criminals who will use the system for bad ends.
If you mean by "Criminal" "One who breaks the law", well there are a lot of laws that have no legitimate purpose. If you mean by criminals "One who regularly commits immoral acts", then you are in much more trouble. -- "Remember, half-measures can be very effective if all you deal with are half-wits."--Chris Klein