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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:19:09 -0400 From: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org> Subject: Why?
Jim Choate wrote:
so, and not just for cpunk traffic. We should use them for everything. It won't take that many people to reduce the message
The tools exist to do this.
Yes, but why would I?
- From "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera Part 4, Section 2:
It was a program about Czech emigration, a montage of private conversations recorded with the latest bugging devices by a Czech spy who had infiltrated the emigre community and then returned in great glory to Prague. It was insignificant prattle dotted with some harsh
And your premise is what? - Anonymous remailers would have resolved the Czech issue? - America is currently in the same sort of situation and the use of remailers would resolve it? - Anonymous remailers guarantee that such things won't happen in the future? - Santyana was right? Obviously the first two are gibberish. There is absolutely nothing to have prevented the Czech government (or any other) from setting up anonymous remailers acting in the role of man-in-the-middle attacks subverting any conspiracies. Now the 3rd is clearly unrealistic because the issue is the respect one human being gives another in regards to their beliefs and the expression thereof. The problem is a people problem, not technology. I personaly vote for the 4th option myself. I would like to believe that through the use of commercial anonymous remailers the concept of anonymity could become ingrained in a society. That is what would help resolve issues like the above, not the remailers themselves. My original question still stands, why would I or any other party choose to use an anonymous remailer for anything other than the original 3 items I mentioned previously. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|