The Crisis with Remailers

[Bill Frantz]

At  8:37 PM 5/15/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>A much richer ecology of remailers is sorely needed. A factor of at least
>10 or 20 more (100-300 remailer sites), less reliance on specific sites, an
>"everyone a remailer" capability (which has many elegant advantages!), more
>traffic, temporarily instantiated sites, digital postage, greater ease of
>use (especially with crypto and chaining), and such things as nominal
>terminal remailers choosing to add their own hops (so as to lessen their
>own target potential). Having some of these improvements will be a big
>help.

Perhaps what is needed is a non-profit, charitable 501c foundation to
encourage anonymous communication.  Those who support the idea could make
tax deductible contributions which would be used for grants, public
education etc. etc. to encourage anonymous communication.  It could be
called, "The Federalist Foundation" because the Federalist Papers were
published anonymously.


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