Why use plastic for remailers and DH?
This point may have been raised before, but anyway, unless you're using a swiss-bank issued credit card for a numbered account (if that's at all possible), or a bogus name on the card, why would anybody want to use something as completely traceable as a credit card to pay for a remailer or a data haven?
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 21:54:24 -0500 (EST) From: Angus Patterson <s675570@aix1.uottawa.ca> This point may have been raised before, but anyway, unless you're using a swiss-bank issued credit card for a numbered account (if that's at all possible), or a bogus name on the card, why would anybody want to use something as completely traceable as a credit card to pay for a remailer or a data haven? Because the message you sent into the remailer isn't tracable to the message that left the remailer (isn't that the point?). Give the FBI credit for *some* brains and assume that they already know you used the remailer, because they saw mail from you enter the remailer. -- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | ask4 PGP key 11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 (9201 FAX) | What is thee doing about it? Potsdam, NY 13676 | What part of "Congress shall make no law" eludes Congress?
From: Angus Patterson <s675570@aix1.uottawa.ca> This point may have been raised before, but anyway, unless you're using a swiss-bank issued credit card [etc. ...], why would anybody want to use something as completely traceable as a credit card to pay for a remailer or a data haven? Because not everyone needs paranoid levels of security. Just because the truly paranoid won't use a service doesn't make it useless. Vebum sapienti... Eric
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