CIA at funet.fi ?

[Matthew J Ghio]

Graham Toal <gtoal at an-teallach.com> wrote:

> : From: paulj at xs4all.hacktic.nl (Paul Jongsma)
> 
> : Well don't think the funet.fi one is a CIA setup, but i know for sure
> : that anon at hacktic.nl isn't.....

Graham Toal seems to have drug this thread to cypherpunks from alt.2600...

Anyway, I tried the remailer at hacktic.nl and the mail bounces... The
remailer does not seem to be working.

> And you can take it as read that every remailer will be logged by the
> Black Hats too.  Only double-blinded *encrypted* remailing is going
> to have any chance of maintaining secrecy, and then only if you go
> out of your way to explicitly chain round dozens of remailers in the
> hope of finding *one* that isn't compromised.  (And that, only if all
> the remailers are regularly spoofing traffic between themselves to foil
> traffic analysis)

I doubt it...  most of the time the system administrators aren't even
aware of the remailer, much less the TLAs.