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Since people are talking about new remailer features, can I suggest another one - how about single-use (or limited use) anonymous return addressess (ARAs) ? There are quite a few situations I can envisage where I might want to give an anonymous return address to someone that could only be used a limited number of times, or for a limited period of time
... digi cash example and comments deleted. Another good use of this would be to maintain anonymity. If you used the same aa382043 address over and over again people will attach an identity to that and they will remember, "Oh yes, that's the guy that said he works for a computer company and hates spinach and likes Amy and ...." and soon (assuming a long term use of the account) you will have an identity and people will be biased one way or another toward you, even though they do not know who you are in real life. A one shot id will allow people to remain truly anon and not have to go to the trouble of switching accts and putting a burden on the remailers with 1000's of accounts.
On Apr 7, 9:24am, Jim Sewell - KD4CKQ wrote: [text elided for brevity]
Another good use of this would be to maintain anonymity. If you used the same aa382043 address over and over again people will attach an identity to that and they will remember, "Oh yes, that's the guy that said he works for a computer company and hates spinach and likes Amy and ...." and soon (assuming a long term use of the account) you will have an identity and people will be biased one way or another toward you, even though they do not know who you are in real life. A one shot id will allow people to remain truly anon and not have to go to the trouble of switching accts and putting a burden on the remailers with 1000's of accounts.
[Apologies for not adding much more text in a reply than that in the original text.] Jim has brought up a very interesting subject, which isn't discussed enough in most of the places I look for such discussion: data inferencing. A one-shot anonymous ID, besides having the certain immediately obvious advantages - useful for preserving user anonymity, trouble in the event of State seizure of the remailer, and lower sysadmin accounting load - makes traffic analysis a somewhat more difficult affair. Of course, one-shot anonymous user handles are of little use to the detweilers of the net, who seem to return to the same places, again and again. It doesn't take much acuity to notice things like the use of, oh, say, TeX-format quote marks in body text, as mentioned in a previous post by Tim May. I shall, of course, refrain from using smilies to indicate humor. I dislike them, and would never use such an unsubtle mechanism to convey wry amusement. I prefer textual encoding. Text is rich.
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