Will the other cypherpunks on this list please step forward and help me refute this toxic propaganda? I don't have time to do it all myself.
All the problems cited in this Silent Circle blog and elsewhere were solved 20 years ago by tools such as anonymizing remailers and message pools. Those tools are still in use today and can be used by anyone wanting confidential, authenticated, stealthy email. As just one example, here is a description of stealthmail Description: scripts to hide whether you're doing email, or when, or with whom Maintain on-going random cover traffic via usenet newsgroup alt.anonymous.messages, substituting encrypted live traffic when available. A live message is indistinguishable from a random cover message except with the decryption keys. All potential participants send messages to alt.anonymous.messages with rigid periodicity uncorrelated with any live traffic, and maintain an uninterrupted full feed from alt.anonymous.messages, so that an observer cannot determine whether, when, or among whom live communication is happening. Members of a "stealthmail group" -- call it "OurGroup" for purposes of this discussion -- are defined by their knowledge of the encryption keys created for the group. With this package installed, mail addressed to OurGroup@stealthmail does not go directly to the Internet like ordinary mail, but gets encrypted by the OurGroup key, given an encrypted subject intelligible only with OurGroup keys, and queued to go to alt.anonymous.messages in place of a piece of cover traffic at the next scheduled sending time. Meanwhile, all messages appearing on alt.anonymous.messages are downloaded into an incoming queue. A POP3 server runs on the local host. The mail reader is provided with filters so that when it fetches mail from this local server, messages having subject lines encrypted for OurGroup (or any other stealthmail group of which this host is a member) are decrypted by the appropriate key and presented. Other messages are discarded. -- -- StealthMonger <stealthmon...@nym.mixmin.net> Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity. anonget: Is this anonymous browsing, or what? http://groups.google.ws/group/alt.privacy.anon-server/msg/073f34abb668df33?dmode=source&output=gplain stealthmail: Hide whether you're doing email, or when, or with whom. mailto:stealthsu...@nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20index.html Key: mailto:stealthsu...@nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20stealthmonger-key
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