From: Johan Helsingius <julf@penet.FI>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 22:52:31 PST
To: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: whistleblower newsgroup?
In-Reply-To: <9302230117.AA18417@soda.berkeley.edu>
Message-ID: <9302230751.aa16701@penet.penet.FI>
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> The moderator to alt.whistleblower, instead of a person's mail
> address, could be a mail alias which invokes a header field stripper.
> That way it would be impossible to post to the group with your
> identity in the header.  Every posting anonymous!  Sort of like a
> mathematical dual of alt.forgery.
> 
> I would also suggest a periodic posting explaining exactly how secure
> that is.  (Proof against casual attack, but not against local or
> global network monitoring.)
> 
> It seems easy enough.  I'd do it myself if I had root anywhere.  The
> perl scripts for remailing would be easily hacked.  You could even
> retain the automatic PGP decryption for the more informed, the more
> paranoid.

Well, I hereby volunteer anon.penet.fi for such use. I already have the
posting stuff in place, and .fi is outside US jurisdiction.... It would
be a one-line hack to disable the anon id generation for posters to that
group... So the security concerns re anon.penet.fi mentioned on this list
wouldn't apply... 

Now I only have to get PGP up on the damned Interactive UNIX... Or
switch to bsd/386 or something...

	Julf (admin@anon.penet.fi)