Scientologists may subpoena anonymous remailer records

Adam Shostack adam at lighthouse.homeport.org
Sat Apr 13 20:05:04 PDT 1996


John Gilmore wrote:

| I thought that most or all of the cypherpunk anonymous remailers don't
| keep records.  Not even on backup tapes.  The whole idea is that there
| aren't logs.  But maybe they have found some remailers that are
| non-cypherpunk.  And I haven't verified the truth of what's in the msg
| below.  If anyone hears anything, please let me (or eff at eff.org) know.
| 
| 	John Gilmore

	Does that prevent a subpeona as a form of harrassment?  There
are already reliability problems in the remailer network.  (Witness
the anon messages that get received twice, as insurance that it gets
through.)  Making the remailers less reliable is in the intrests of
the bad guys.

Adam

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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume







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