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

[Roy M. Silvernail]

On 27 Oct 2001, at 13:24, Mark Henderson wrote:

> uucp still lives in pretty much every UNIX and UNIX-like operating
> system and it moves email well. 
> 
> It would be a simple matter to get uucp going for a mail link with
> some sort of over the wire encryption. It has been about ten years
> since I've dealt with this, but as I recall each email message went
> via a uux of rmail (uux was remote command execution - sort of like
> 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.

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.

> I wonder if my old Telebit modem still works. It is in a box
> somewhere...

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.
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