On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:20:20PM -0600, Declan McCullagh wrote:
We have anonymity in Web browsing (more or less, thanks to Lance & co). It's not NSA-proof, but it's probably subpoena-proof.
We have anonymity in email thanks to remailers (to the extent they're still around).
We have anonymity in publishing, and to some extent, document retrieval, thanks to Freenet.
We have anonymity in one-way communications/dead drops thanks to remailers gatewayed to Usenet newsgroups (if any still even do that).
alt.anonymous.messages has a healthy amount of traffic. Google Groups says they have a bit more than 200 messages in it on December 9, for example. I assume nearly all of it is from remailers posting to Usenet (or remailers sending mail to mail2news gateways), otherwise there's little point of using it. -- avva