On 26 Sep 1997 23:18:00 -0500, Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> wrote:
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 19:17:11 -0700 From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net> Subject: Re: Remailer Attack (fwd)
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And I mentioned this specifically.
I'll grant you mentioned digital postage. This simply is not robust enough to handle the world of a commercial remailer operator. We'll just have to agree to disagree here because the standard digital postage argument simply doesn't sway me to support it.
What's wrong with the idea of digital postage? What else do you have in mind? There are a couple of problems that arise when money in any form gets involved: 1) refunds: If one remailer in a chain fails to deliver a message, How does a user get a refund without having the message traced back to him? 2) Business/Gov't dishonesty: Imagine if 50% of all remailers are owned and operated by the same company. Now imagine if that company did not have the same morality/ideaology as we do. Now imagine if that same company was LEA friendly. I don't think I need to tell you why this is a bad thing.