Traceable Infrastructure is as vulnerable as traceable messages.

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Fri Aug 3 22:23:33 PDT 2001


On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:51:04AM -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>    As long as the remailers themselves are traceable, make no mistake: 
> they exist only because the lions have not yet passed a law against them.
>

Of course it would take many -- hundreds -- of jurisdictions acting
in concert to do this. There is no evidence that such a global anti-remailer
treaty is underway. (Though I have documented many anti-anonymity
efforts on the part of U.S. law enforcement.)

>    You cannot have encryption technologies advancing and leaving the law 
> behind, 

Why not? It already has.

-Declan





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