Forwarded from Computer Privacy Digest. These messages are in reply to the Strassmann/Marlow paper archived at: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/fight-censorship/dl?num=1159 -Declan ---------- Forwarded message begins here ---------- From: cnordin@vni.net (Craig Nordin) Date: 15 Feb 1996 15:02:16 -0500 Subject: Re: Anonymous Remailers are a Virus Spreading Online Organization: Virtual Networks References: <comp-privacy8.14.10@cs.uwm.edu> Note the SAIC name in the byline. Note that CIA folk have often published stuff and not fessed up to having a CIA background. Anonymous remailers are the number one threat to total control via government. If you read something anonymous you can discard it simply because the writer is unwilling to stand beside his words. Or, you can see if it is an apt piece of writing and decide that it does apply, even without an author. This thread is part of a "school" of such topics now reaching us through various media. Note the recent news made by an internet announcement that a girl was being abused by her mother. Kids are said to be making bombs from instructions via the Internet (and why were they making so many bombs learned from libraries and colleges before and not even making it past the local news?). Some people don't like utterly free speech. -- http://www.vni.net/ cnordin@vni.net Fly VNI: Send E-Mail to info@vni.net ------------------------------ From: "Prof. L. P. Levine" <levine@blatz.cs.uwm.edu> Date: 15 Feb 1996 16:22:41 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Anonymous Remailers are a Virus Spreading Online Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee My most serious question about anonymous remailers is this: How can we be sure that the operator of such a remailer is not a federal or other governmental agent? That person is trusted with our privacy and has all the data needed to identify a user. If I were the Feds I would already have set up such a "sting" operation, the temptation is just too great. -- Leonard P. Levine e-mail levine@cs.uwm.edu Professor, Computer Science Office 1-414-229-5170 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Fax 1-414-229-6958 Box 784, Milwaukee, WI 53201 PGP Public Key: finger llevine@blatz.cs.uwm.edu ------------------------------ ---------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Leonard P. Levine | Moderator of: Computer Privacy Digest Professor of Computer Science | and comp.society.privacy University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Post: comp-privacy@uwm.edu Box 784, Milwaukee WI 53201 | Information: comp-privacy-request@uwm.edu | Gopher: gopher.cs.uwm.edu levine@cs.uwm.edu | Web: gopher://gopher.cs.uwm.edu ---------------------------------+----------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of Computer Privacy Digest V8 #015 ******************************