Graham Toal cypherpunk regular said: The trouble with the cypherpunk remailers is there isn't a single one of them I'd trust. The overwhelming credo of the sort of person I've met in this area is that they want extreme absolute privacy for *themselves* but sneak and spy on everything they possibly can about everyone else. (Oops - that sounds bad - I don't specifically mean the people who run cypherpunk remailers; I mean people who're obsessive about secrecy in general and hackers in particular. Secretive hackers being the worst.) <- It's interesting to me how double standardized (is that a phrase in english?) the concept of privacy is in general. One seems to have to do some snooping to make sure one's privacy and security is assured. In doing so one is invading the privacy of others. I have met very few privacy purists. Most tend to feel that privacy is not a general responsibility of the collective to assure. The collective in this sense is either the government, or the people as a whole. Phrased another way, most of the privacy advocates I have met and discussed with seem to feel that what is not protected is fair game. They lay the burden on the individual to secure his/her own privacy and scowl at those who are too lazy to do it. (note that this message isn't signed because I'm too lazy to do it) In addition they seem to snarl at any attempts to collectivze privacy and make it a function of government to enforce privacy on the ground that there exists a conflict of interest. Unfortunately, while there exist SOME tools for the individual today to provide for his or her own privacy, (stong encryption) many of the other tools are provided by smaller collectives. (the remailers for example) Indeed it is a collective of perhaps 2 (the operator of the mailer and the system admin if seperate) but a collective none the less and one which the user must rely on. Are remailers then a departure from the "secure your own privacy" doctrine? It stands to reason that all remailers should provide for double blind double encrypted remailing. (Provided you subscribe to the theory, ) Just as a side note, I tend to think that laying the burden on the individual is the best approach. -uni- (Dark)