From: Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 04:15:53 -0800 (PST)
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [Proposal:] Revolving Web Mirrors
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Bill Stewart wrote:
> 
> >> Maybe a mailing list/news group that could
> >> post current URL's for the mirrors?
> 
> Having the pattern matcher look for (and delay) potential mirror lists
> is more productive, since you can catch them at the Nationalist Firewall
> before they get into the country.  Maybe.  If readers know what to
> look for in their news postings, censors probably do to.
> 
> Email is tougher - the Bad Guys don't need to find the source of the
> mirror listings (presumed to be in a non-cooperative country,
> if you can find it at all) - they can find the recipients of the lists,
> and go beat them up.

  Maybe it's time to set up an "InterNet Free Europe" type of program.
Crypto and remailers seem to be well-suited to the task of implementing
the dissemination of information and protecting identities of the many
individuals who would be involved.
  CyberHackers could compromise a few systems, to turn them into 
innocent remailers, and this would open the door for the administrators
of other systems to 'fake' system attacks, and do some remailing 
themselves.
  CryptoRebels could disseminate encryption programs containing the
public keys that would be used for the InterNet broadcasts in certain
cases.

  One of the keys to "InterNet Free World" (a better name?) would be
to make a habit of disseminating a plethora of 'false' encrypted 
messages with little or no meaning, and no available key, as a cover 
for the messages that are actually targeted for certain users or
systems.
 
-- 
Toto
"The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre"
http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html