a blackmail opportunity
Eli Brandt
ebrandt at jarthur.Claremont.EDU
Sun Mar 28 16:17:30 PST 1993
While writing some appropriate paranoia for a canned response to
remailer info requests, I realized that running a remailer is a
perfect prelude to blackmail. An unscrupulous person running a
remailer can obviously keep records of truenames, along with
messages that their senders do not want associated with them.
Making use of this information could involve a scenario to the
crypto-extortion previously discussed, but blackmail would be far
more believable than anonymous threats. Alternatively, the
blackmailer could be low-tech and resort to present techniques.
Always encrypting helps with mail, but not with news.
PGP 2 key by finger or e-mail
Eli ebrandt at jarthur.claremont.edu
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