FBI moves to route internet through central servers: Another dagger in the Heart of Freedom in America

[Morlock Elloi]

> > rsh over a modem). There is no particular reason why one couldn't
> > encrypt before sending and decrypt upon receipt. Mostly just a
> > modification to sendmail.cf and a modification to rmail. Of course
> > this really just solves the problem for a single hop uucp link.

There is a package that encrypts e-mail, it is called something like Pretty
Good Privacy. Use the fucking PGP for e-mail at the end-user point. No need to
trust anyone. Crypto concentration points are bad as any other concentration
points.

> 
> Believe it or not, I still have one mail route that travels over UUCP 
> for the last link.  For the past 4 or 5 years, I've done UUCP over 
> TCP/IP.  I'd think that one could tunnel that through SSL, though 
> I've never tried to do it.

Or use 802.11b with a small dish ... does wonders to 20 miles and it's rather
hard to intercept *every* path.

> Heh... 19,200 was blazingly fast in those days, and the Telebit was 
> set up for UUCP spoofing (the local modem faked the ACK packets 
> to save turnaround time) to get better throughput.  Still, I think a 
> 56K modem could outpull a Telebit.

You mean the $2500 9600 baud telebit is inferior today ?

:-)


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