CDR: Re: would it be so much to ask..

Jim Choate ravage at EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Wed Sep 20 05:28:58 PDT 2000


On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, petro wrote:

> 	The key word in that sentence was "trace", meaning just 
> that--a trace. In the pseudononymous remailers there is a back trace 
> to follow.

Not if you do it right. Hell, forge your source header on sends (as a
starter, there are lots more ways to do this).

> 	Either way, if the ability to map email address to meat space 
> identity is less than very, very hard for a government to do 
> *technically* then it really isn't anonymous.

Agreed. I'd say it isn't anonymous at all, in fact.

It's fortunate the TCP/IP and related protocols are so sloppy and easy to
munge.

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