Mitigating Dangers of Compromised Anonymity
Major Variola (ret)
mv at cdc.gov
Sat Aug 31 10:24:33 PDT 2002
At 01:21 AM 8/31/02 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
>Just wondering ... in a life & death situation (say, blackmailing att.
>general), what would be the choice of readers of this forum:
>
>
>a) use mixmaster remailer from their home/business/friend.
Like that one-degree of separation is comforting...
>b) use an internet cafe
Your face might be recognized later. Willing to shave for the
transmission and then go on vacation to regrow the mane?
>c) use an open wireless AP
Bingo. Use a rented car. Or better, stolen :-)
>
>b and c assume, of course, one-time use of a throwaway e-mail acct.
Why bother even establishing one? Simply use a fake name and domain
that your SMTP server takes. Works for me :-) [1] though I don't get
personal
replies -not something you want anyway for your task.
[1] Though header-stripping lne.com can trace me ---real anonymity would
require b) or c)
or a trusted a) (only without my end being observed before the fact).
>c) makes most sense to me, provided that you fake your radio card's MAC
and do
>it while walking by, with folded laptop in a bag running a script.
Or treat your fixed-MAC card as a one-time-use disposable and torch the
thing.
Along with the laptop, probably. Separately.
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