1995-10-24 - Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal
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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: tien@well.sf.ca.us (Lee Tien)
Message Hash: 1c9df6198309b4c4d0b6add8015e439f7a79b1caf4afd7852004d862a3690553
Message ID: <199510240214.WAA05020@jekyll.piermont.com>
Reply To: <199510240148.SAA26014@well.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-10-24 02:14:52 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 19:14:52 PDT
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 19:14:52 PDT
To: tien@well.sf.ca.us (Lee Tien)
Subject: Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal
In-Reply-To: <199510240148.SAA26014@well.com>
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Lee Tien writes:
> How difficult is it to forge headers?
Trivial. If you want to make even the Received: headers look right, it
takes a bit more work, but its possible.
> How difficult is it to trace a message to the actual sender if the
> header is forged?
If they know what they are doing, its very hard.
Perry
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