At 01:30 AM 12/19/2001 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
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Criminals love privacy, they love anonymity. Remailer operators soon find that a substantial majority of the messages they send contain nothing but harrassment and threats. Few customers use anonymity services for positive purposes, to protect their privacy while engaging in legitimate activities. With most people, if they have nothing to hide, they don't hide it. Only paranoids and extremists will adopt anonymity technologies without nefarious purposes in mind. Anyone proposing to offer new services for privacy and anonymity should be prepared to deal with the onslaught of criminals who will use the system for bad ends.
One would assume then that most governments are paranoids, extremists and criminals since the use of privacy/secrecy and even anonymity technologies are stock and trade in some of their agencies. steve