CDR: Re: New email could confound law enforcement

[Harmon Seaver]

Ken Brown wrote:

> So you avoid using an email server by...
>
> > To use SafeMessage, a person signs on to the program with an ID
> > and password,  similarly to an >email client. When typing the
> > recipient, the person sends the contact to AbsoluteFuture's
> > server,  which locates the recipient online and allows the sender
> > to send the message directly to the recipient.
>
> ...using an email server!
>
> How clever.
>

      Yes, it sounded pretty good up until that point. And it must be a
windoz
thingy anyway -- if your using a linux box, you have your own sendmail
server, so,
of course, all linux boxes can send email peer-to-peer. But unless
they're encrypted
at the origin, however, they can still fall prey to Carnivore upstream. A
really nice thing
would be a mail client that did automagic crypt, plus a mixmaster
component to hide the
true name of the sender or receiver running on linux.  A netscape plugin
that did this would be
very, very nice, if NS ever became truly opensource. Or some other client
that handled
html mail well.

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Harmon Seaver, MLIS     Systems Librarian
Arrowhead Library System        Virginia, MN
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