Are remailers designed to be knocked down?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Scientology wars are spilling over into alt.usenet.kooks again, and Keith Henson had this odd thing to say. I thought Cypherpunk discussion of Keith's thesis would be interesting. hkhenson@netcom.com (Keith Henson) wrote:
henry (henri@netcom.com) wrote:
: if the remailers are merely toys, capable of being knocked : down like dominoes by some fringe-cult of psychopathic dimwits, : it's better to find that out now than wait for a situation : where someone's life or death could be determined by the : security of remailer-chaining and encryption against a : determined opponent.
Ah, but the remailers are *designed* to be knocked down. The are not expected to last if they are being used for serious causes. But the package for doing another one and getting it hooked into the network is easy to install--even in a user act. Knocking out a remailer will usually halt the effort to get back at the person/persons who were spilling the beans. Social factors involved here. If any of you would like to help, offer to run a remailer for a while. Consider it a temporary civic duty. Keith Henson
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On Fri, 10 May 1996, Alan Bostick wrote:
The Scientology wars are spilling over into alt.usenet.kooks again, and Keith Henson had this odd thing to say. I thought Cypherpunk discussion of Keith's thesis would be interesting.
hkhenson@netcom.com (Keith Henson) wrote:
Ah, but the remailers are *designed* to be knocked down. The are not expected to last if they are being used for serious causes. But the package for doing another one and getting it hooked into the network is easy to install--even in a user act. Knocking out a remailer will usually halt the effort to get back at the person/persons who were spilling the beans. Social factors involved here. If any of you would like to help, offer to run a remailer for a while. Consider it a temporary civic duty. Keith Henson
I think this is reasonable. I would HOPE that a remailer under heavy attack would be able to shut down, publicly, before it was taken over by the legal authorities or other armed thugs. -rich
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