Timothy C. May (tcmay@got.net) wrote: |At 8:12 PM 4/10/96, Steve Reid wrote: [...] |>I don't really know much about remailers, but I don't think there's much |>to know... If I'm mistaken about any of the above, I'm sure someone will |>correct me. | |Glad to oblige. I note also that Jim Byrd and Jim Warren are unclear on |some details. (To Jim Byrd, that "alumni account at Cal Tech" that you |mentioned was one of the Cypherpunks remailers at Caltech that our own |pioneering Hal Finney runs.) Incorrect. The account was tc@alumni.caltech.edu, which is not the same as Hal's remailer at hal@alumni.caltech.edu. Just an odd coincidence they were on the same machine. There's a whole saga about how CoS tracked the guy down, it's quite a story. Rather than go into it here and leave things out or confuse them further, check out http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/scientology/anon/penet.html for a clear, concise explanation of the whole bizarre affair. Check out Ron's "CoS vs the Net" page while you're at it, at http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/scientology/home.html. |Cypherpunks remailers account for something like 29 out of 30 of all the |world's remailers, by site count, though not volume. Sophisticated users |know that the Cypherpunks model is the only robust one; Julf's approach |has an ecological niche, but is highly vulnerable to the very subpoena |approach used recently (not "several years ago" as Jim Warren says). It's also suceptible to hacker attack, as happened a few years ago. "Information wants to be free" is not a political statement, it's a fact of nature. One property of information is that it tends to spread. If you don't want the information to spread, don't store it. RA agent@l0pht.com (Rogue Agent/SoD!/TOS/attb) - pgp key on request ---------------------------------------------------------------- The NSA is now funding research not only in cryptography, but in all areas of advanced mathematics. If you'd like a circular describing these new research opportunities, just pick up your phone, call your mother, and ask for one.