Compare this with the original claim: in a properly designed
anonymity
system the users will be, well, anonymous, and it should be impossible
to tell any more about them than that they pay their bills on time.
These examples illustrate the falsehood of this claim. Much more
is learned
Killing remailers will be a by-product of regulating the net.
Regulating the net to this extent would be a huge undertaking. Trying to
regulate dead-tree publishers to this level would be a large undertaking, a
task not likely to be accomplished without a lot of debate in Congress --
and there
When you were asked where were all the supposed wealthy freedom fighters
in communist controlled regimes, you came back with Osama bin Laden.
Tim's point, which many seem to have missed, is that by design a tool that
enforces the privacy, anonymity, and pseudonymity of a women striving for
equal
An efficient Scheme for Proving a Shuffle, Crypto 2001, Jun Furukawa and
Kazue Sako (NEC Corporation), apparently could be used to show that a
remailer is processing all messages without revealing the header or contents
of any message. (Apparently because I haven't read the paper -- just heard
Radio is cheap and hot. When was the last time you heard a Libertarian
sentiment on radio (except talk radio). The closest I've heard are the
"Vote
Freedom" ads by Charleton Heston.
Last week I heard 2 different ads for Indiana LP candidates on a station
that plays hip-hop, alternative, and
David Honig writes:
You want to overwrite a dozen times with random (each time) data.
I'd be cautious about saying that. Way back when I held a security
clearance, the instructions were:
* Overwrite with patterns 99 times for SECRET materials; and
* Overwrite with patterns 999 times for TOP
Don't take offense at such personal deconstruction. I'm
merely pointing out what we *actually* know, vs. what
is claimed.
Your reply was the funniest thing I've read today. "Group of ephemeral
psyop pranksters" indeed!
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Mark
Ed Gerck wrote:
As to the counter-example you ask, the general public profits by
lack of disclosure of the algorithm that allows nuclear bombs
to be made with 1 pound of enriched uranium. We have less
nuclear powers.
I'd like one of the real physicists on the list to weigh in on
What I object to is the _forced_ "kindness" based on mob rule, where
it is decreed that we must all donate money at the point of a gun to
support welfare bums who got high instead of reading and studying.
Welfare may have started with the best of intentions, but the result is
multiple
