CyberManicheans (was Re: CyberAngels)
anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com
anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com
Sat Feb 17 16:11:27 PST 1996
"declan+ at CMU.EDU" or someone using that identity has written:
I fear the so-called "CyberAngels" more than I do the Feds.
At least with their brand of jackboots, there can be
accountability.
The CyberAngels are more like CyberCads, CyberFrauds, or CyberCriminals.
Cyber-vigilantes?
Odd that their home page has a blue-ribbon. They don't seem to
understand what the hell they are doing... it's not a requirement
that ISPs require online presence to be verifiable anyway.
Even if you're ISP operator knows who you are, it doesn't follow
that it's definitely YOUR presence in a usenet post or on IRC.
There's plenty of semi-anonymity on the net without using things
like remailers or "decense" protocols or DC-Nets.
Under their logic, we should all have little bar codes implanted
in our skulls and checked at every street crossing and doorway.
There's also a difference between rudeness and criminal activity.
Anonymity isn't a cause of crime. It's icing on the cake, and
criminals will find a variety of other ways around validated
User-ID at the ISP level anyway.... which lulls one to a false
sense of security, since once you're got a legitimate-appearing
ID for your ISP, you can do quickie hit-and-run "cybercrimes"
and fall off the face of the earth anyway.
There's just so much an ISP or even a clerk at a department store
can do to verify your identity. One store I know doesn't accept
checks from Post Boxes, believing that they are all-too-often
used for fraud... but a street address from a fly-by-night mail
box rental is undetectable by them.
The Cyber Angels are just as clueless as the authors of the
CDA.
Cheers,
[***CENSORED***]
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