anonymous remailers
C'punks -- When I told a friend about the alt.drugs.pot cultivation newsgroup and suggested that he use an anonymous remailer to post to the group, he laughed and said, "Who do you suppose runs the remailers? ATF, FBI, DEA, that's who!" Gee, it makes sense to this paranoid. Does anyone know the answer? Specifically, how can we choose a trusted remailer? Cheers (?), Charley
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com> writes:
Charley Musselman writes:
Does anyone know the answer? Specifically, how can we choose a trusted remailer?
The answer is to run your own remailer. Make sure your chain includes your remailer at least once. If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?
Ummm, if you run your own remailer, and don't get lots of people to use it, then traffic analysis will reveal that you are the sender quite quickly. It will pretty much make everything in the chain before your remiler useless. If you send your message through remailers a, b, c, and d like this: you -> a -> b -> c -> d -> alt.drugs.and-other-various-horsemen and only you use c, then your effective chain is: someone who could only be you -> d -> alt.drugs.and-other-various-horsemen This chain is weak indeed. Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMvwyI8kz/YzIV3P5AQE6JgL/RJ9Y3GmZl2mQ0dK9tVtaZG7OW33xKHqV Ur9fQt3Yms19bCbq+bAWoeNC5ZPjXESCtGigPW3VmXVjCd4igPepk25dtzR1OcL+ In/0n9QcRqDvmupZFFdldY62orGQyVEm =JIWK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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