Anonymous Remailers

[Lucky Green]

On Wed, 14 May 1997, Roger J. Jones wrote:

> Why is it that some who are very concerned about their personal privacy utilize anonymous remailers that:
> 
> 1) Log all of their mail messages?
> 2) Are in many cases reputed to be run by foreign intelligence services?

Net.myths
 
> Do they really trust the owner of the remailer? (Unless of course, it is
their remailer?) I seem to be missing something. 

You are missing the fact that you can chain remailers. Therefore it is 
pretty much irrelevant if some remailers are compromised.


Then again, I know several remailer operators personally. Which makes me 
less worried about the them being foreign intelligence agents.

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