1997-05-15 - Re: Anonymous Remailers
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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: “‘cypherpunks@toad.com>
Message Hash: 4b27a6f21a426c9e2e8dcb450fcfa0f86456d6498d25878d2d831d0f087e222d
Message ID: <19970514222526.39369@bywater.songbird.com>
Reply To: <01BC603F.4B529240@pc1901.ibpinc.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-05-15 05:46:27 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 13:46:27 +0800
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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 13:46:27 +0800
To: "'cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Anonymous Remailers
In-Reply-To: <01BC603F.4B529240@pc1901.ibpinc.com>
Message-ID: <19970514222526.39369@bywater.songbird.com>
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On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 06:01:23PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 1997, Roger J. Jones wrote:
>
> > Why is it that some who are very concerned about their personal privacy utilize anonymous remailers that:
> >
> > 1) Log all of their mail messages?
> > 2) Are in many cases reputed to be run by foreign intelligence services?
>
> Net.myths
>
> > Do they really trust the owner of the remailer? (Unless of course, it is
> their remailer?) I seem to be missing something.
>
> You are missing the fact that you can chain remailers. Therefore it is
> pretty much irrelevant if some remailers are compromised.
>
>
> Then again, I know several remailer operators personally. Which makes me
> less worried about the them being foreign intelligence agents.
Lucky, since I am considered contemptible by several c'punks, I worry
about them more than I would about foreign intelligence agents. I
have actually considered sending some things through the remailers,
but I don't trust them -- I don't find cypherpunks any less
susceptible to ideology than foreign agents...
--
Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke...
PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55
http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html
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- 1997-05-14 (Wed, 14 May 1997 22:04:43 +0800) - Anonymous Remailers - “Roger J. Jones” <cyber@ibpinc.com>
- 1997-05-14 (Thu, 15 May 1997 00:18:57 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
- 1997-05-15 (Thu, 15 May 1997 09:21:55 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
- 1997-05-15 (Thu, 15 May 1997 09:25:57 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
- 1997-05-15 (Thu, 15 May 1997 11:58:28 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
- 1997-05-15 (Thu, 15 May 1997 13:46:27 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
- 1997-05-15 (Thu, 15 May 1997 14:42:24 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
- 1997-05-15 (Thu, 15 May 1997 23:36:52 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - tzeruch@ceddec.com
- 1997-05-16 (Fri, 16 May 1997 10:54:53 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
- 1997-05-16 (Fri, 16 May 1997 18:46:52 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
- 1997-05-16 (Fri, 16 May 1997 22:47:17 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
- 1997-05-16 (Sat, 17 May 1997 00:07:17 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
- 1997-05-16 (Sat, 17 May 1997 00:56:03 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
- 1997-05-16 (Sat, 17 May 1997 02:21:27 +0800) - Total Paranoids Don’t Need Cryptography - Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
- 1997-05-16 (Sat, 17 May 1997 00:07:09 +0800) - Re: Anonymous Remailers - Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>