declan@well.com writes:
Anonymity allows people to evade laws. Governments don't like that. Read the archives.
It would be nice to see at least one example of something nasty that could be done with an anonymous remailer in the next few years where you couldn't get the same effect at the corner phone booth or dropping a letter in a public mailbox. So far there have been no prohibitions on sending information anonymously via those mechanisms. Why would email be singled out?
On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 07:26 PM, A. Melon wrote:
declan@well.com writes:
Anonymity allows people to evade laws. Governments don't like that. Read the archives.
It would be nice to see at least one example of something nasty that could be done with an anonymous remailer in the next few years where you couldn't get the same effect at the corner phone booth or dropping a letter in a public mailbox.
Are you dense, or just ignorant? Consider the broad class of two-way communications, whether for information buying and selling, extortion, espionage, arranging contract killings, etc. Are these sufficiently "nasty" for you? Now consider that both the "corner phone booth" and "dropping a letter in a public mailbox" are untraceable only in _one_ direction. Two-way communication is not untraceable. If you don't see this, despite years and years of this point being explained on this list and in books like those by Ludlow, Levy, Kelly, and others, there is no hope for you. Agent Farr, this feeble attempt to entrap us into giving examples of "nasty" applications is puerile. It was all laid out a decade ago. --Tim May
Sigh. Read the archives. Tim's cyphernomicon (I think that's what he called it) is a good start. --Declan On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:26:15PM -0700, A. Melon wrote:
declan@well.com writes:
Anonymity allows people to evade laws. Governments don't like that. Read the archives.
It would be nice to see at least one example of something nasty that could be done with an anonymous remailer in the next few years where you couldn't get the same effect at the corner phone booth or dropping a letter in a public mailbox. So far there have been no prohibitions on sending information anonymously via those mechanisms. Why would email be singled out?
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