Gmail as Blacknet

[J.A. Terranson]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Tyler Durden wrote:

> Poo poo. The difference between a potential blacknet and Gmail is that
> there's little doubt that google will cough up the true names of
> objectionable posters, if and when anyone looking even remotely
> authoritative/governmental comes pounding on their doors. In a worst-case
> Blacknet, my True Name will only be gettable by agents of the state via the
> expenditure of very large amounts of resources, if at all.
>
> -TD

Careful use of Google (as you should carefully use any public network
resource), which always uses multiple proxys, one-way addresses, etc, could
make for a verry effective manipulator (as well as simple user) of such a
system as Gmail.

//Alif

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