making the agora vanish
Jim Choate
ravage at ssz.com
Tue Apr 17 20:43:19 PDT 2001
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote:
> At 09:05 PM 4/17/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>
> >Isn't the anonymizing agent itself a 'reputation service' in that it's
> >reputation capital is 'anonymity'?
>
> Completely orthogonal to the reputations (or lack thereof) of its clients,
No, because if the anonymizer fails the clients are screwed.
> yes, a so-called anonymizer has a reputation, actually, several (e.g.,
> uptime;
> resistance to subpeonae; mean time to handle user gripes; etc).
>
> And the point is?
What if it's not anonymous. What if it's selectively anonymous? What if
it's cracked?
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