-- At 04:00 PM 12/16/00 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
Alt.anonymous.messages is completely effective. It does not provide mere obscurity, but rather supplies true security. To determine who I am communicating with, and what I was saying, the adversary would need to compromise my firewalled computer.
At 10:48 PM 12/17/2000 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
The adversary might have a good idea who's actively downloading the group from a number of major isps. That doesn't mean they'll know who's reading it from random-isp.ru or direct off the spool at random.edu.au, but if they really care, they can get a good idea how many people are reading the group, even if they don't know which articles you read.
The main thing they will discover is that a lot of people are reading and posting. This makes the information that one particular person is posting and reading not very useful. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG QwmsBPfy58qWPZWmR4qXZSs3cPuVXmkgnE//bq80 4QqXBGe1FmmaA+VkDuH4uyezo0M1bqUp5F44ZJM2U