On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 06:01:23PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Roger J. Jones wrote:
Why is it that some who are very concerned about their personal privacy utilize anonymous remailers that:
1) Log all of their mail messages? 2) Are in many cases reputed to be run by foreign intelligence services?
Net.myths
Do they really trust the owner of the remailer? (Unless of course, it is their remailer?) I seem to be missing something.
You are missing the fact that you can chain remailers. Therefore it is pretty much irrelevant if some remailers are compromised.
Then again, I know several remailer operators personally. Which makes me less worried about the them being foreign intelligence agents.
Lucky, since I am considered contemptible by several c'punks, I worry about them more than I would about foreign intelligence agents. I have actually considered sending some things through the remailers, but I don't trust them -- I don't find cypherpunks any less susceptible to ideology than foreign agents... -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html