On Fri, 2 Sep 1994, Patrick Juola wrote:

Does anyone have a concise, citeable statement about why anonymous remailers are a good thing? Some sort of position statment by Julf would be ideal. Similarly, if anyone has something for the *other* side of the coin, I'd love to see that.

1. They allow the reporting of evil practices by big companies/government 2. They allow the dissemination of "forbidden" information. ie: under an opressive government, etc. 3. They allow the sender to ask a question which would destroy his/her reputation for whatever.

I'm in the process of writing a course on computer ethics for the University of Colorado at Boulder and I think anonymous remailers would be a good subject for an essay assignment, but I need enough material (ideally, primary source material) to lay the groundwork first.

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