"Halvor Kise jr." <HALVORK@dhhalden.no> wrote: (with reference to Scott Collins catalyst-remailer):
Would this guy told Brad if he could? I'll newer use that remailer again!
I think you're missing the point. He doesn't keep logs so that nobody can try to force him to reveal someone's identity. It provides a very convienient excuse. :) And it certainly reinforces my trust in the remailer to protect my anonymnity.
I think appinions change from here you live. I live kind of close up to Russia (Live in Norway). Norway is a sosialistic(?) country and we actually had the World War II here, so we have felt, and can see what the freedom of speach is. So Imagine that I am an Albanian citisen(?) and have some disturbing news about the Albanian goverment. I post this news to the world through this remailer. Wouldn't I be breaking a law by doing this? Yes, I would! Use your brains! Wouldn't this news be of importance for the world? And to you trigger-happy americans: What if the news about the invasion of Quwait came from Iraq trough an anon remailer? Wasn't that of "importance for the world"?? Or did you americans loose so many lives for nothing? The world is at war! And I would allow nearly any action to distribute information! Eaven if this means that sombody is using my remailer to break the law by distributing copyrighted information.
This is the reason that we have tried so hard to get remailers all over the world. Unfortunatly, with one exception, all our remailers are in the United States. If someone was sending copyrighted material through my remailer, and the AP got upset about it, they could do a lot to harass me, as I'm sure they have contacts with people at this university, since they are a large American-based news agency and have offices in this area. If some Albanian or Norweigen government person started complaining, I could basically tell them to take a hike (or less idiomatically, ignore them and tell them to go away). They certainly aren't going to take a trip across the Atlantic just to come over here and make trouble for me because of a few politically incorrect messages, and I doubt they could seriously interest the government here with their own polticial problems. This is why I strongly encourage you to set up a remailer in Norway. If we can have many remailers distributed throughout the world, the chances of political pressures threatening the remailers is diminished.