On the crime bill and remailers

[Duncan Frissell]

At 05:45 PM 9/20/94 -0400, John Young wrote:

>Hal and Tim point to the vulnerability of the person running 
>the remailer to being threatened through the equipment owner 

Soon most remailers will be run on equipment owned by the operator.  At the
last NJ computer show I attended, I could have purchased a 486/66 with a
paltry 250 meg HD for $999.  Then all we have to worry about are the network
connections but in a few years, we'll be able to do high-speed "dial up"
connections from our home boxes to other (and different) systems anywhere on
the nets.  Hard to track.

>This isolation and elimination (or co-optation) of a target has 
>worked again and again to destroy networks once they become 
>serious threats to law and order.

They can afford to intimidate a few remailers but "enforcement doesn't scale
well."  (Another DCF quote.)  Networks, software, and hardware scale much
better than enforcement resources.  Swamping effect.

DCF