Philippe Nave writes:
W. Kinney writes :
Is there some reason why lots of 'punks _aren't_ running a simple script that will, say, fire a message to one's self through a chain of remailers every time you log on or at random intervals or something?
Something to consider for this is Safe-Tcl and the proposed Enabled-Mail extension for MIME. Enabled-Mail will allow you to create a multi-part MIME message that contains a script to be executed in a safe interpreter at delivery-time (to the user's mailbox) or at read-time; one proposed use listed in the draft was to generate return-reciepts when mail had been delivered to the recipient. It would be quite trivial to adapt this system to send off an encapsulated message back through the remailers that would take a random path through the system and at the final remailer ask to be delivered to /dev/null. [...]
Things That Would Be Nice: 1) The script, incantation, or whatever should be easy for even Unix novices (*blush*) to implement without assistance. [...]
If/when enabled-mail is accepted as a part of the MIME standard it will become fairly transparent to the user and can be spread to more than just Unix hosts.
2) The script may need to incorporate some random element that changes the path through the remailers every now and then [...]
It would be trivial to have the remailer randomize the paths generated in the scripts it attaches to messages going out.
3) Some assurance that this will be a *quiet* process;
Again, this could be done by the script-generation process so that all error messages are pointed to the remailer. jim