NODE 5b02286cANONYMOUS CONTACT SERVICE
hfinney@shell.portal.comThu, 12 Aug 93 09:18:12 PDT
From: Warren Keith Russell <keru@cpu.us.dynix.com>
> I received a message from System Daemon telling me that I had sent a
> message using the anonymous contact service, allocating a code name, and
> explaining how I can be reached anonymously.
A few months ago, someone subscribed to the list through the Penet service,
and it ended up revealing the Penet aliases of everyone who posted. Each
post was delivered to that subscriber marked as being from the Penet alias
corresponding to the poster. All it took was a parallel non-Penet subscription
to break the anonymity provided by Penet.
Has this now happened again?
At the time, there was some discussion about using "an..." versus "na..."
forms of the Penet aliases, one of which would avoid this revelation. Has
that been taken care of?
Hal Finney
hfinney@shell.portal.com
NODE 10382a24Re: ANONYMOUS CONTACT SERVICE
Johan Helsingius <julf@penet.FI>Thu, 12 Aug 93 12:52:53 PDT
> A few months ago, someone subscribed to the list through the Penet service,
> and it ended up revealing the Penet aliases of everyone who posted. Each
> post was delivered to that subscriber marked as being from the Penet alias
> corresponding to the poster. All it took was a parallel non-Penet subscripti
> on
> to break the anonymity provided by Penet.
>
> Has this now happened again?
Yes. I was contacted by the user who was the cause of this. He didn't
reaalize what would happen. He has now send an unsubscribe request.
> At the time, there was some discussion about using "an..." versus "na..."
> forms of the Penet aliases, one of which would avoid this revelation. Has
> that been taken care of?
Evidently not. :-(
Julf