At 4:41 AM 2/7/96, sameer wrote:

http://www.strassmann.com/pubs/anon-remail.html

A friend at Hotwired (yes, he's still my friend even though he works for Hotwired) pointed me to some FUD which led Futplex to the above paper. It's an interesting viewpoint.. salient quotes:

"By far the greatest threat to the commercial, economic and political viability of the Global Information Infrastructure will come from information terrorists. "

"Anonymous re-mailers are here to stay. Like in the case of many virulent diseases, there is very little a free society can do to ..

The affiliation of the authors is interesting: ---- by Paul A. Strassmann, US Military Academy, West Point; and Senior Advisor, SAIC and William Marlow, Senior Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) ---- Now, what were people saying about SAIC and its role in intelligence matters saying again? (Not to mention the Inter-NIC stuff.) --Tim May, "wanted for information terrorism" Boycott espionage-enabled software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."