At 03:24 PM 11/17/97 -0500, Anonymous wrote:
Any kid with a throwaway Netcruiser account and a copy of Netscape or some other mailer that allows you to set an arbitrary From: address on outgoing SMTP mail can easily "forge" a return address, and certainly do a more convincing job than you could ever hope to do by pasting headers through a remailer. I'll bet if that happened, people like Mr. Burnore would not be so quick to demand that Netcom be shut down if it can't put a stop to this.
Woodwose (who appears to have borrowed my last name for his "True Name") appears to have done a variation of this--except that if there are complaints about messages being sent from woodwose@mailexcite.com, I doubt anything will happen other than the woodwose account at mailexcite.com being closed. Hence, his "disposable remailer" claim. Any shmuck can log on and input a fake name, address, and demographic data to create a new account at hotmail, mailexcite, or juno. In this way, as existing remailers are harassed out of existence, new ones can be created on a daily or hourly basis. It would probably be interesting to find out how much info these outfits collect (cookies, etc.) that could be definitively linked to a True Name. Jonathan Wienke PGP Key Fingerprints: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams "Stupidity is the one arena of of human achievement where most people fulfill their potential." -- Jonathan Wienke RSA export-o-matic: print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`