Addressed to: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li> Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com> ** Reply to note from Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li> 05/15/96 6:29pm -0400 = I would really like to see a remailer that is somehow blinded. = on a message basis --it is not really possible if the logs are maintained or the fed are already monitoring the stream --which is probable if they are after something --and it will increase geometically if we get Bubba again. there are a number of very sophisticated ways to play the game, but each requires a real "Web of Silence" --what makes your counterpart reliable? where do we establish that "Web of Trust" which everyone bandies about. who are the two plants for our current chain? or is this just another case of sowing dissension by the feds? I only know two or three at most of the players on the remailers at all --and that is a passing knowledge, not acquaintance. = I don't know enough about how mail paths are generatered, but is it = impossible to conceal the origin of remailer postings? = impossible to conceal each orientation, but I have been playing with several easy techniques which are sufficiently obfuscatory that the Feds will not have the horsepower to break them unless someone provides them with the methodology --that in itself violates how we (cp) have always insisted on 'post it' and get on with the attempted destruction. even if they break the methodology, they gain very little v. the technique. = Postings made to remailernym@alpha.c2.org would be spit out = somewhere but = without accountability? = sure, possible if you wish to play the game with a "Web of silence." = Impossible? Would do wonders defeating traffic analysis. = no, not impoosible. just who wants to be responsible for something the NSA assholes can not own --and compromise? they get down right shitty when they kick your door down in the middle of the night as take your carcass away --if nothing else works, off to Springfield you go --without charges --lest we forget the crippled president or Hustler magazine --that is what they did to him _before_ they convicted him, _and_ after. = I'd consider running a remailer, but after listening to the response to = the anonymous poster a while back, it sounds like there are few if any = simple options which do not require major time and effort to setup and = run. = you can run it out of your client account on an IAP --there's nothing special about it in a simplified form. I could support a remailer point if I could manage to get the necessary "Web of Silence" counterparts --one them preferable foreign. BTW, it does not need to be complex to add another level of confusion. usually the best offensives are the simplest. == = Opp. Counsel: For all your expert testimony needs: jimbell@pacifier.com = is this subtle, crass, or just not? -- Overseeing first-rate programmers is a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.