Robert A. Costner wrote:
If anyone has any comments on how they have used the Georgia Cracker remailer, I'd appreciate the comments being emailed to me. Anonymously or not.
-- Robert, pooh@efga.org
Robert, I regularly teach members of health and mental-health mailing lists and support groups how to use anonymous remailers, as well as how to forge their headers to prevent remailer operators from discovering their identity. A number of these people are from southern states, including Georgia, and have indicated that they find the ability to post anonymously to health groups very valuable in allaying fears of their sharing of personal health information coming back to haunt them. In particular, I advise people who are afflicted with such medical conditions as Tourette Syndrome and OCD to use anonymous remailers if they find (or fear) that their impulsivity in screaming "Bullshit!" when they smell bullshit will cause them trouble in the future. Personally, when I email politicians and the like, I usually use anonymous remailers, including the Georgia Cracker, so that I don't have to worry about being discriminated against and/or investigated and/or imprisoned for being afflicted with a physical and mental condition which causes me great discomfort when I am forced to tell polite lies under the guise of free speech. In short, a ratfucker is a ratfucker is a ratfucker, and if anyone objects to being called one, then they should make an effort not to be one, rather than calling for my head on a platter because I call a spade a spade (or a "fucking shovel"). Two nights ago I began to teach my niece and her high-school girl friend how to use remailers for anonymity to communicate with others in a manner that will not leave them vulnerable to tracking/stalking by strangers. Law Enforcement Agencies fully recognize the need for anonymous communications, setting up hotlines that they advertise as being free from call-tracing, etc. Is this capacity to be denied to private citizens and groups who wish to communicate with those who need their help? If someone wants to spam me, or threaten me, or whatever, through the use of anonymous remailers, fine--I have a delete key and I have mail filters. If someone else is too fucking lazy or unconcerned with using the available technology and tools to do the same, then where the fuck do they find the time and energy to call for myself and others to be held prisoner behind an ElectroMagnetic Curtain in order to "protect" them from "real life?" Every time some Nazi piece of shit announces his or her intention to "protect" somebody, my freedom, privacy and human rights seem to get thrown in the trash. My lawyer in Austin, Larry Joe, once told me about a client who phoned him from prison and said, "I have a TV and radio, I get three meals a day and cigarettes, and there's even a weight room here. It's not really like being in prison." Larry Joe asked him, "Do you have a key for the door?" The youth replied, "No." Larry Joe told him, "Trust me...you're in prison." I'm growing tired of those who want to lock all of the doors on the InterNet and control the keys so that the citizens will be imprisoned behind an ElectroMagnetic Curtain where they are only allowed to travel at the discretion of a higher authority. The only people who suffer from being imprisoned behind walls of censorship and fascism are the poor and the powerless. The Nazi rocket scientists, the Spamfords and the adult web site operators will always emerge from the wars with a seat at a Congressional fundraiser, it is the average citizen who always is on the inside (of the Prison, Wall, or ElectroMagnetic Curtain) looking out. My advice to well-meaning fascist censors is to stay the fuck out of the InterNet regulation business, because there are too many people on the InterNet who have experienced its freedom and who will no go easily into the dark night. I was in Poland shortly after the fall of The Wall, and was talking to a lady who was describing how hard life had become in the resulting "chaos of the new." I asked her if she thought that the citizens would return to the former political system if conditions got bad enough. She said, "Over my dead body." Someone wants to shut down your remailer? Fine. I'll start one up. They want to shut down my remailer? Fine, but what about the Eternity Servers? Don't know about the Eternity Servers? They are waiting to route around the damage caused by shutting down remailers, and there is another technology waiting to replace the Eternity Servers if they get shut down. I, for one, am not going to stand by listlessly while fascists attempt to build an ElectroMagnetic Curtain around me. I have a byte, and I'm not afraid to use it. Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" http://bureau42.base.org/public/webworld