On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Eric Murray wrote:
Another way to kill remailers would be through anti-spam legislation that forbids "forging" email headers. We're already seeing some of this.
Declan brought this up in a "sky-is-falling" article about remailers and anti-spam legislation. I do not believe this is a valid threat. Mail from "juicy@melontraffickers.com" does come from the melontraffickers.com server. It is not forged. (Such legistion would protect against unfortunate instances like the flowers.com case.) This *would* require some remailers, like frog2, to stop allowing "From:" line specification. But that's hardly a big issue.
My guess is that the first or second is most likely. It won't even be targeted at remailers, just at regular email.
Killing remailers will be a by-product of regulating the net.
Unless the next Tim McVeigh ever uses a remailer in his life. Mark my words: The next major act of domestic terrorism will somehow involve either crypto or remailers, *according to the government investigators' reports.* Insert appropriate fnords where necessary.
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:50:38AM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Declan brought this up in a "sky-is-falling" article about remailers and anti-spam legislation. I do not believe this is a valid threat.
This is incorrect on at least two points: My artcle did not say such a law was particularly likely, so it hardly deserves to be characterized as "sky is falling." (My position is only that folks should consider what would happen if such a law were to be passed.) Second, someone else brought up anti-spam legislation. -Declan
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