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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