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Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

1995-01-17 - Re: (none)

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From: Mats Bergstrom <asgaard@sos.sll.se>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: Mats Bergstrom <asgaard@sos.sll.se>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 11:13:11 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: (none)
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On Tue, 17 Jan 1995, Name withheld on request wrote:

> wonders to what end remailers are being put by people who are worried
> about being "sold out".

The fundamental principle here is that an e-mail message is just so
many bits of 1's and 0's. It can never, in it's own capacity, steal,
molest or kill. It is therefore not unethical to run a no-log 'fortress
remailer' and auto-delete ALL complaints, without exception. It might
not be feasible to do so if one wants to stay out of jail, but hope-
fully this will change with the rapid increase in country domains
and the soon-to-come digicash market. Discussions of programming to
make fortress remailers work and to make them easily exportable to
African Linux-boxes are interesting. So are discussions of expected
repercussions on society. Ethical discussions of what is abuse or not
are better left to the clergy.

Mats

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