As we expected - our Announcement-posting generated a number of lame Followups. Our Answers follow: in LACC-Diggest Bill Unruh <unruh@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
Actually if I were a "haker" I would be far more worried that this is actually a FBI/CIA/NSA/... run site. It sure would be a convenient way to pick off whole loads of self styled hackers and tie them in to ongoing investigations. "nobody can find out who hides behind alpha.c2.org accounts" or who hides behind alpha.c2.org
HACKERPUNKS-OWNER ANSWERS: Actually if you were a "haker", you should be worried REGARDLESS of who runs this List: FBI/CIA/Stasi agents can trivially create an alias like FBI@alpha.c2.org and SUBSCRIBE to this List. They would know all Information that is available to the List-owner, except the subscriber-list. But, the subscriber-list is useless because of Anonymity. Even if alpha.c2.org were an FBI run Site, its Users must use Anonymous-remailers to access it. That preserves their Privasy. in Newsgroups David Sternlight wrote:
Remind anyone of the police department that anonymously announced a resisters' seminar on how to make bombs so they could find out who to watch?
HACKERPUNKS-OWNER ANSWERS: how can they find out who to watch if subscribers are Anonymous?? SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N wrote in cypherpunks:
I don't have a C2 account, and don't really want to pay for one. I trust someone will put the hackerpunks archives on the web so the rest of us can read them.
HACKERPUNKS-OWNER ANSWERS: alpha.c2.org Accounts are FREE. Ecafe Mixmaster Remailer wrote in cypherpunks:
There was a minor error in my earlier post. If someone were to notice a node on the internet receiving a bag with L(In)=L(Posted) *before* any other nodes on the internet, then one could guess that node had a user who was the owner of Hackerpunks.
HACKERPUNKS-OWNER ANSWERS: There is a minor Error in your current Post. L(In) <> L(Posted) because of prepended Headers. For Protection, hackerpunks List receives some Junk-mail, automatically trashed, to create Noise. HACKERPUNKS-OWNER _A_D_V_I_S_E_S_ Sameer Parekh and GhiO to add Code to their Alpha-remailer to insert Random-Size Header 'X-Random-Noise:' before Encryption of Messages sent to Users of alpha.c2.org Accounts. Other Remailers are advised to change the Size of these Header Lines. HACKERPUNKS List-bot adds a Random-size Kookie to every outgoing Message to preserve Privacy of Subscribers.