On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote:
At 09:05 PM 4/17/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Isn't the anonymizing agent itself a 'reputation service' in that it's reputation capital is 'anonymity'?
Completely orthogonal to the reputations (or lack thereof) of its clients,
No, because if the anonymizer fails the clients are screwed.
yes, a so-called anonymizer has a reputation, actually, several (e.g., uptime; resistance to subpeonae; mean time to handle user gripes; etc).
And the point is?
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