1997-02-07 - remailer-operators DEA agents?

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From: Secret Squirrel <nobody@squirrel.owl.de>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-02-07 06:47:06 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 22:47:06 -0800 (PST)

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From: Secret Squirrel <nobody@squirrel.owl.de>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 22:47:06 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: remailer-operators DEA agents?
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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> c.musselman@internetmci.com (Charley Musselman) writes:
> > C'punks --
> >     When I told a friend about the alt.drugs.pot cultivation newsgroup
> > and suggested that he use an anonymous remailer to post to the group,
> > he laughed and said, "Who do you suppose runs the remailers?  ATF,
> > FBI, DEA, that's who!"  Gee, it makes sense to this paranoid.  Does
> > anyone know the answer?  Specifically, how can we choose a trusted
> > remailer?
>
> Even if the feds are not directtly involved, the so-called "cypher punk"
> remailers are run by people who should not be trusted.  Check out their
> remailer-operators list: it's full of announcements that some specific
> person posted something via the remailer that the operator didn't like.

Examples, please?





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