From: Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
To: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-04-11 20:18:54 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 04:18:54 +0800
From: Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 04:18:54 +0800
To: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>
Subject: Re: Scientologists may subpoena anonymous remailer records
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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Steve Reid wrote:
> > I thought that most or all of the cypherpunk anonymous remailers don't
> > keep records. Not even on backup tapes. The whole idea is that there
> > aren't logs. But maybe they have found some remailers that are
>
> When a person recieves a message from someone using an anonymous
> remailer, the return address will usually work, depending on the
> remailer. The return address is for an address on the remailer, and
The above is very confusing and stems, IMHO, from imprecise use of terms.
It is important to distinguish between 4 types of remailers:
* traceable pseudonymous
* untraceable pseudonymous
* traceable anonymous
* untraceable anonymous
The text quoted above is true if it describes a "traceable pseudonymous"
remailer, e.g. anon.penet.fi. This is different from, say, a cypherpunks
style remailer.
For a full, perhaps tedious, explication of all this and other stuff too, see
http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/ocean1-7.htm
an earlier, much shorter, and slightly dated, treatement of the anonymity
issues only can be found at http://www.law.cornell.edu/jol/froomkin.htm
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