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[James A. Donald]

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At 04:00 PM 12/16/00 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
 > > Alt.anonymous.messages is completely effective.  It does not
 > > provide mere obscurity, but rather supplies true security.  To
 > > determine who I am communicating with, and what I was saying, the
 > > adversary would need to  compromise my firewalled computer.

  At 10:48 PM 12/17/2000 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
 > The adversary might have a good idea who's actively downloading the
 > group from a number of major isps.  That doesn't mean they'll know
 > who's reading it from random-isp.ru or direct off the spool at
 > random.edu.au, but if they really care, they can get a good idea how
 > many people are reading the group, even if they don't know which
 > articles you read.

The main thing they will discover is that a lot of people are reading and 
posting.  This makes the information that one particular person is posting 
and reading not very useful.

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