Nobody@rahul.net, forwarding from homer's remailer, writes:
If c2.org can offer RIAB accounts on a pre-paid basis, what's to stop people interested in the cause from paying anonymously, setting up the RIAB, and just walking away? When the pre-paid period expires, the remailer goes away.
Yeah - John Doe pays in cash, or uses a Post Office money order :-), to get X months of remailer service. After the initial account setup, he can keep it up dated by mailing in mostly-anonymous paper cash using the usually-anonymous paper remailer service offered by the US government, dropping the payments in a mailbox. If the sysadm is trustable, no problem, and the degree of trust is whatever a month's remailer service costs. If he's not, John Doe can detect it by occasionally using the remailer, and can spam the net with scanned-in copies of the money order showing it's payable to sysadm. If the sysadm wants to float the (low) cost of running a remailer for a month, he can even keep the money order around for a month or so to use as evidence if he's subpoenaed or otherwise legally harassed. One concern I have about this remailer strategy is whether everyone's remailer shows up as their own, or as "nobody" - can you tell the nobodies apart? John X. Doe