CDR: Re: Anonymous Remailers
At 09:46 AM 10/5/00 -0400, Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
One variation of the original proposal would be to only allow egress to addresses known to lay in a jurisdiction different from the one in which the remailer resides. I know, the problem is nontrivial with all the dotcom addresses and such around. Does doing a DNS lookup and working on IP addresses help?
That's not something the remailer should be doing - that's something that the user sending the message should be doing. If the remailer list shows what jurisdiction the remailer is in, that makes it easier for the user to determine, but it's the user's choice. Of course, if the remailer _always_ adds its own encrypt-and-mail hop, sending to another remailer in another jurisdiction, that's transparent to the user and a good thing (as long as it can avoid mail loops.) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Bill Stewart wrote:
One variation of the original proposal would be to only allow egress to addresses known to lay in a jurisdiction different from the one in which the remailer resides. I know, the problem is nontrivial with all the dotcom addresses and such around. Does doing a DNS lookup and working on IP addresses help?
That's not something the remailer should be doing - that's something that the user sending the message should be doing
The thread originated from a concern of someone planning to put up a remailer over legal responsibility and related costs. If in fact reducing this cost is a prerequisite to a growing infrastructure of remailers, I would say the remailers should definitely be doing just that. It's not so very different from running a middleman. Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university
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