At 01:52 AM 7/26/01 -0400, dmolnar wrote:
will be sending and receiving several messages each day. You might try to get around this by developing a protocol in which there are many, many remailers, each of which only speaks once in a very long while. I don't know how easy or hard it is exactly to do this kind of tracking, however, which makes it difficult to say what such a protocol would look like.
Perhaps mobile remailers might be more useful or more difficult to track to their physical implementation. The only problem with a mobile remailer is the question of "who's moving it?" (or what). I can imagine a mobile remailer the size of a Walkman without too much difficulty; I can also imagine that if I were to wear such a remailer and walk around in the wrong kind of environment, I'd be asking for a "mugging." or worse.
When "cell phones" get more programmable, and handle text, an interesting "app" could be guerilla-net-like "routing". If everyone's "phone" is a RF repeater/router, its not impossible. Battery life would probably be the worst impact. A few airline bottles of vodka will keep the fuel cells humming (for the future phone, I mean). Lots of mil apps for fully distributed RF nets, too.