remailer@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ?? (fwd)
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:45:56 -0500 From: John Deters <jad@dsddhc.com> Subject: remailer@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ??
There are many anonymous re-mailers in operation across the Internet.
That's being just a tad charitable I think. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Jim Choate wrote:
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:45:56 -0500 From: John Deters <jad@dsddhc.com> Subject: remailer@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ??
There are many anonymous re-mailers in operation across the Internet.
That's being just a tad charitable I think.
Not really, several is often used to roughly translate in common usage as about seven, so 'many' could be more than several. Just as a few is roughly four. A couple is about two. At least there are too many to get court authorization for all of them, especially those pesky non-North American sites. It would be nice to see more remailer. I do not know if transient remailers themselves are a good idea, but I think transient operators of same-named remailer is good. remailer.com and remailer.net is taken, but remailer.org appears to be available. Maybe we need a network of transient operators for a number of remailers all out of a common domain. remailer@tcmay.remailer.org, remailer@vulis.remailer.org, etc., which the machine names points to different machines IP addresses weekly. It allows sites which want to block anonymous mail via remailers easily (such as certain retentive commerical sites) via domain blocking. This is both a plus and a minus. An Admin trying to stop harrassment of a user could block all anonymous remailed mail with a simple block os all mail from remailer.org. Security conscience sites could prevent outgoing messages from sending to remailer.org. Legit users blocked by this only need non-business access such as via a freenet or AOL trial offer diskette. This would provide an increase in overhead for legal hassle for net.weenies. "No, I do not operate the anonymous remailer at tcmay.remailer.org..." <whisper> "but I did last week." It does not even increase the complexity at the user's end. Existing software like premail, and Private Idaho wouldn't break. The only stumbling block I foresee is that the PGP private key passphase would have to be shared amongst operators unless there is a better way. This may of been discussed by remailer operators before, I don't know. If there is good solution to the private key passphase sharing then I think the operation is possible without a lot of complex work. Maybe the code from pgp.net dymanic domains could be used. -- Michael C. Taylor <mctaylor@mta.ca> <http://www.mta.ca/~mctaylor/>
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