At 10:30 PM 5/14/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote:
I'd have thought that a remailer going down because of political/legal pressure would raise more of a ruckus.
At 11:02 AM 5/15/96 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
I thought the statement that remailers are supposed to be ephemeral and common was the answer.
Exactly so: Some nyms are valuable, most are valueless by design. All remailers should be valueless by design. The penet.fi remailer design is unsatisfactory precisely because it penet.fi is valuable, hence a target. If it gets shut down a lot of people lose their nyms, causing much inconvenience. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com