On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:20:20PM -0600, Declan McCullagh wrote: > We have anonymity in Web browsing (more or less, thanks to Lance & > co). It's not NSA-proof, but it's probably subpoena-proof. > > We have anonymity in email thanks to remailers (to the extent they're > still around). > > We have anonymity in publishing, and to some extent, document > retrieval, thanks to Freenet. > > We have anonymity in one-way communications/dead drops thanks to > remailers gatewayed to Usenet newsgroups (if any still even do that).
alt.anonymous.messages has a healthy amount of traffic. Google Groups says they have a bit more than 200 messages in it on December 9, for example. I assume nearly all of it is from remailers posting to Usenet (or remailers sending mail to mail2news gateways), otherwise there's little point of using it. -- avva
