At 5:59 PM 8/10/94 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
Joichi-san writes:
Please excuse me if this has already been discussed... but... What about the trend of busting the sysops of bbs'? The recent Fidonet bust in Italy seems to support this trend. It sounds to me like any remailers remailing illegal stuff may get caught in the dragnet.
No?
With nested encryption through the Labyrinth (first the Net, then the Web, now the Labyrinth?), only the last remailer who remails to a site that is under observation or is a sting site (common in Memphis) is vulnerable.
And even that last remailer may be able to claim ignorance (and win in court) if he can show that what he mailed was unreadable to him, i.e., encrypted to the recipient. (This is another reason I favor a goal of "everyone a remailer.")
With canonical remailers, and no logging, earlier remailers should be safe.
Interesting. So if the carrier is ignorant, they're off the hook?
By the way, welcome Joichi (your first post to the list, that I can recall).
Thanks for the welcome. I've been lurking, but hadn't had the opportunity to make any comments before, and it looks like this point wasn't much of a point anyway. :-) back to lurk mode. - Joi -- true name: <Joichi Ito> closest email address: <jito@netcom.com> closest fax number: <+81-3-5454-7218> current physical location: <Tokyo> travel path: <Portola Valley.8/7!NRT.8/30!Austria.9/19 NRT.9/27!SFO.10/1!NRT.10/18> mosaic home page: http://www.eccosys.com/ -- finger jito@netcom.com for PGP Public Key, RIPEM Public Key -- Things are more like they used to be than they are now.