Guerrilla Remailers
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Has anyone else given thought to "Guerrilla Remailers?" Basically someone obtains an account on one of the freenets or similar free account, sets up a remailer and lets it sit for a while. (Until telnet and/or phone logs are overwritten) After this time frame the address of the remailer is posted. The remailer then would be used until it is shut down by the Powers that be. The account would be set up under a bogus name etc. This would make the remailer the ideal candidate for the last hop in a remailer chain. (After all if they can't find Juanna DuBone or Jack Mehoff they can't apply any pressure to them or hold them responsible. It seems to me the extent of pressure in this case would be just to shut down the remailer) Just keep a few ahead and keep leap frogging, as one is shut down another is put on line. ============================================================================== A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. -- Dr. Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown ============================================================================== skaplin@skypoint.com | "...vidi vici veni" - Overheard | outside a Roman brothel. PGP encrypted mail is accepted and | preferred. | Change is the only constant in the | Universe..."Four quarters, please." E-mail key@four11.com for PGP Key or | Finger skaplin@mirage.skypoint.com | Smile!! Big brother is watching. ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLtHIWApnimeWAf3FAQGLYAQAgon4d7tKmj1qKJuzSHrZUVhULJKEj7AF vdIA4Ul2H/M3Sv3eP4CPPzCZTVun2ani5k0OhF9pM1cg8coTpepGTF/cGdBEhfN5 /YLkDteMAqqnVu6YxCuLwUDvtHm5QUj1Qj+VM8tTgivfbFnGgcLuu2wx+5XQ7FAP bPSwRLwGGXE= =jOD3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
| Has anyone else given thought to "Guerrilla Remailers?" Basically someone | obtains an account on one of the freenets or similar free account, sets up | a remailer and lets it sit for a while. (Until telnet and/or phone logs | are overwritten) After this time frame the address of the remailer is | posted. The remailer then would be used until it is shut down by the Powers | that be. The account would be set up under a bogus name etc. This would | make the remailer the ideal candidate for the last hop in a remailer chain. | (After all if they can't find Juanna DuBone or Jack Mehoff they can't apply | any pressure to them or hold them responsible. It seems to me the extent of | pressure in this case would be just to shut down the remailer) Just keep a | few ahead and keep leap frogging, as one is shut down another is put on line. The freenet operators will, once they see their "no remailer" policy is being abused, simply prevent people from running arbitrary programs from accounts. This will stop them from using some of the most useful tools (procmail) out there. The way to set up remailers is on a freindly host, such as C2.org. Let systems managers who are our freinds shut down these fake account remailers. Real remailers (with return address features) should probably be advertised in alt.support.* and alt.recovery, in order to build a class of "good" users for them. Nb, I don't see this use as superior to any other, I simply see it as being politically useful to provide anonymous services to a group of people who society seems to think should be anonymous. "But Brad, you can't shut down my remailer. Its used to let victims of sexual abuse post anonymously to the net!" Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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