Last I heard, neither MAE East, nor MAE West were ever dragged into court on co-conspiritor charges just because packets from some German hacker kid hopped through their Cisco's. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Eugene Leitl wrote:

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Trei, Peter wrote:

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If I were a remailer operator, I'm not sure I'd like this. Active cooperation with another remaler operator means that if he/she/it does something illegal, you could be dragged in

How is this different from the current situation? Is usage of a specific mainstream protocol sufficient protection from conspiracy charges? Joe Bob Postfixuser is hardly a remailer operator.

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on 'conspiracy' charges, regardless whether you actually had any knowledge of the the other operators nefarious activities.

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