Databasix conspiracy theories

[Jonathan Wienke]

At 03:24 PM 11/17/97 -0500, Anonymous wrote:
>Any kid with a throwaway Netcruiser account and a copy of Netscape or some
>other mailer that allows you to set an arbitrary From: address on outgoing
>SMTP mail can easily "forge" a return address, and certainly do a more 
>convincing job than you could ever hope to do by pasting headers through a 
>remailer.  I'll bet if that happened, people like Mr. Burnore would not be
>so quick to demand that Netcom be shut down if it can't put a stop to this.

Woodwose (who appears to have borrowed my last name for his "True Name")
appears to have done a variation of this--except that if there are
complaints about messages being sent from woodwose at mailexcite.com, I doubt
anything will happen other than the woodwose account at mailexcite.com
being closed.  Hence, his "disposable remailer" claim.  Any shmuck can log
on and input a fake name, address, and demographic data to create a new
account at hotmail, mailexcite, or juno.  In this way, as existing
remailers are harassed out of existence, new ones can be created on a daily
or hourly basis.  It would probably be interesting to find out how much
info these outfits collect (cookies, etc.) that could be definitively
linked to a True Name.


Jonathan Wienke

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