This claim was made at a symposium held at Harvard by a sometime lecturer at the National Defense college. He later denied it. Since lots of other things he said in the same lecture were plainly false (more likely his ignorance than a clever attempt to spread FUD), I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Anyway, who cares -- you just use encryption and chaining and all is well. See http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/oceanno.htm#xtocid583110 for more info. On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Andrew Fabbro wrote:
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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
There are a number of anonymous remailers out in cyberspace, but it has been stated by a knowledgeable source that a number of them are being operated by law enforcement agencies (presumably to troll for criminal activity). A
Can someone verify/discredit/comment on this statement? Who is the knowledgeable source?
Andrew Fabbro [afabbro@umich.edu] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~afabbro/ PGP mail preferred; finger afabbro@us.itd.umich.edu for key "A good marketing organization listens to its customers...WE HEAR YOU!" - the National Security Agency
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