-- On 17 Sep 2001, at 10:30, Ryan Lackey wrote:
I'm not sure if I buy that remailers are even going to have serious problems in the future. I see two approaches:
1) The aforementioned ecash-based system. We don't have a problem getting people to smuggle drugs, because people in the drug game get lots of money, women, cars, etc. I wonder how many drug dealers would do it just for "moral goodness" (actually, a lot of last-stage dealers do that, just buying for their friends and distributing, which obviously doesn't work for remailers;
Works fine for remailers. If you need to use a remailer, run one. You know that at least one remailer in the network is OK, guaranteeing that your messages will be really untraceable.
I don't think we'll have to wait long for this kind of theorizing on anonymous communications and prosecution to no longer be merely academic.
Closing down remailers right now would involve going off message. They might however go off message if the war is nearly won, or nearly lost. If the war is nearly lost, we can expect a claim that "we were stabbed in the back", followed by a focus on the internal enemy. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG bVRat5mEHVZsqG36x0si0fvps1elLGAhf9i2JTeT 4+akZKq1bBg9sR1kH3r9/fnKcYH+e0PCBg0UIIcAa