Yet another failure on the part of the reader. Anonymity is strictly to avoid having something linked to your identity. Since what I do requires trust, and trust cannot be built into an anonymous system. I can't do what I want to do through anonymity. Additionally you have apparently failed to grasp exactly where the reality and perceived reality of anonymous remailers actually lies. What you have taken to calling anonymity is far from it. Not only does it have a threshold of workeffort that can be applied to trace a message, but it also comes from a finite set of users, a potentially very small finite set of users. For example, how many people make use of remailer.xganon.com? Certainly no more than a few thousand. A few thousand investigations would turn of any facts surrounding statements made through the "anonymous" remailer. To narrow the possibilities even further, how many of them read cypherpunks through lne.com? Whether you have realized it or not, your anonymity is heavily flawed. So what point is there to using "anonymity" that is heavily flawed, slow, drops messages, and through not being pseudonymous does not allow the building of trust? The only remaining reason would be doing something illegal where the flaws become benefits, slowness is immaterial, dropped messages don't matter, and you don't want trust. If you can give me an example of another use of a generally horrible technology that is legal I will gladly point out to you why there are still better technologies for that as well. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anonymous" <remailer@remailer.xganon.com> To: <cypherpunks@lne.com> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 2:19 PM Subject: CDR: Why Joseph Asherwood Should Use Remailers
Joseph Asherwood wrote:
I don't personally use remailers, I don't tend to do things that are illegal, but if I did there are other methods that I'd use.
You strike me as a fast learner, so I believe in a short time you will see that this is a silly statement. There's nothing wrong with learning, but this error is now linked to you forever.