-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 05:40 PM 2/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
c.musselman@internetmci.com (Charley Musselman) writes:
C'punks -- When I told a friend about the alt.drugs.pot cultivation newsgroup and suggested that he use an anonymous remailer to post to the group, he laughed and said, "Who do you suppose runs the remailers? ATF, FBI, DEA, that's who!" Gee, it makes sense to this paranoid. Does anyone know the answer? Specifically, how can we choose a trusted remailer?
The solution is not to choose a trusted remailer, but to choose a group of remailers and send your message through each one
I run an anonymous remailer. I have a mixmaster type at mix@wazoo.com nd a cypherpunk type at remailer@wazoo.com. Also, there is a WWW interface at http://www.wazoo.com/~remailer. I know that my system doesn't keep any recorders except number of messages that go through. I am a "secure remailer". Before I set up the remailer, I did a lot of soul searching, knowing that somewhere along the road I could help a "baby raper" or something else I find morally objectionable. I came to the conclusion, and I still think it is the right conclusion, that the public service offered by an anonymous remailer far outweighs the disadvantages of potentially helping someone I personally find objectionable. Setting up a remailer, for someone that is already running a domain, is easy enough to be almost trivial. With the explosion of domains the internet has seen in the past couple of years, at least some of the remailers have to be honest and not fronts for the DOJ, FBI, and whatever other alphabet orginizations... Obviously, you are thinking that any FBI agent that wanted to could post this exact message, and YOU ARE RIGHT! Take advantage of a string of remailers. Use proper encryption, so that none of them know more than the next hop. Make sure you vary the order of remailers you go through with each message. Being cautious, you can be almost 100% certain your message is anonymous. Chuck Sys Admin... Wazoo's Computers ====================================== PGP key for remailer@wazoo.com available from all public key servers of by fingering: remailer@wazoo.com...help file available by sending mail to remailer@wazoo.com with a subject of remailer-help ====================================== For those that missed or already deleted the list, here are some places to find more about remailers: http://WWW.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU/cypherpunks/remailer/ http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/index-anon.html http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 Comment: Chuck Fender <chuck@wazoo.com> Sys Admin for Wazoo's Computers iQCVAgUBMvtCni/mzwsxwvO5AQGbjgP/d8YfoPxHnSG4Gu6G/3Vx7GcPFK6DBj4Z FtdoNdQUgWFrMK270Ep6dz5wBIGiEJrPNpiMJQJl2mt4GRSP4RTT3zWy1T8ULclr wFnywwjieMFxyz4JBBGbyBssNZM2OqUSJIyMFXWdmQyXTKNOXqxnW9oMOu82QqLD TuHUSUaxrYU= =rJFq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************** * Wazoo's Computers * * Alamogordo's Internet Access Provider * * (505) 434-5090 * *****************************************