On Mar 08, 1996 02:28:22, 'JonWienke@aol.com' wrote:
d 96-03-07 20:19:12 EST, you write:
Because the drive is portable. You can place an easily concealled two-pound 135 Mb drive in a briefcase or backpack and have a travelling MixMaster site. Here today, there tomorrow, someplace else the next day. Makes the whole system a real problem for the security types to track down.
Why not just put an IDE/SCSI EZ drive in a Pentium laptop with an ISDN or 28.8K modem? That would be the ultimate in portability; you could still hide the whole thing, or remove the cartridge and destroy it fairly quickly if necessary. That would give you the best of all worlds.
Indeed this would be a technologically superior system. The system I'm thinking of, however, has a capital startup cost of under $250.
However, no matter where you are physically located, you have to have an account with somebody somewhere to get Internet access. If the gov't wants you out of business, they can cancel your ISP account or revoke your domain name and shut you down that way. I suppose it would be harder for them to
prosecute you if they didn't know where you were, though...
I am not entirely sure how the whole domian name etc. issue will be handled as numbered accounts fill up. I am also discussing with friends the idea of the no-domain-name style, similar to penet.fi with various forms of REQUEST REMAILING TO.... In other words, this or that person acts as a (perhaps temporary) remailer from their regular account, gets the material encrypted, and massages it in various ways before sending it out. The point is to increase entropy by creating the technological base for an enormous proliferation of remailer/anon tech at the lowest possible price. Internationally know "elite" (in the good sense of the word) remailers are by definition known, and thus easy to monitor. Mixmaster etc sites popping up from the home computers in the rec rooms of suburbia are not. --tallpaul
Jonathan Wienke