Moral Crypto

[Fisher Mark]

> Killing remailers will be a by-product of regulating the net.

Regulating the net to this extent would be a huge undertaking.  Trying to
regulate dead-tree publishers to this level would be a large undertaking, a
task not likely to be accomplished without a lot of debate in Congress --
and there are many fewer dead-tree publishers than net publishers.

The only way this could be done would be to attack at the large ISP level,
which then brings up First Amendment issues along with common carrier
issues.  It could be done, but it would likely take a covert operation so
large that:
* It could only be funded by a government or other large body; and
* Which would likely come to light relatively quickly ("three can keep a
secret, if two are dead").

(Covert operation in the sense of staging many events that use the net in
the process of harming people, as in using remailers for staging
terrorist-like attacks for the express purpose of scaring the American
public into abrogating their First Amendments rights unilaterally on the
net.)
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Mark Leighton Fisher            fisherm at tce.com
Thomson multimedia, Inc.        Indianapolis IN
The Illuminati are not dead --
they're just pining for the fnords...