NODE 5d822535Minneapolis Star Tribune this morning
Charles Gimon <gimonca@skypoint.com>Fri, 22 Mar 1996 05:29:06 +0800
Mpls. Strib did a piece this morning, front page, about AltaVista,
Dejanews, etc. Well-worn territory to readers of this list. Your
words can come back to haunt you, all that stuff. One paragraph that
deserves rebuttal from those of you who are better-informed:
"Of course, technology is working on solutions to itself, but
mechanisms that would hide the name of a message's author, such as
cryptography and anonymous remailers, are convoluted and incomplete."
Author was Jonathan Gaw; no e-mail address given. Star Tribune Online
is at http://www.startribune.com.
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NODE fb4d863eRe: Minneapolis Star Tribune this morning
Mutant Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>Fri, 22 Mar 1996 22:59:31 +0800
Charles Gimon wrote:
> Mpls. Strib did a piece this morning, front page, about AltaVista,
> Dejanews, etc. Well-worn territory to readers of this list. Your
> words can come back to haunt you, all that stuff. One paragraph that
> deserves rebuttal from those of you who are better-informed:
>
> "Of course, technology is working on solutions to itself, but
> mechanisms that would hide the name of a message's author, such as
> cryptography and anonymous remailers, are convoluted and incomplete."
Rebuttal? Why? Remailers generally are. There aren't enough penet.fi
type remailers, which people prefer not only because there is a mapping
but because it's easier to use. (It's also a bit more secure if there
are c2-nym remailers mapped to penet.fi type remailers in various
countries).
Not everyone is on a system that is PGP-friendly. Handling PGP-messages
from commercial services or even most mailer apps is awkward at best,
and the commands for mixmaster/c'punk remailers are not as standard as
they could be. (A PGP3 DLL would improve the use of crypto and anon-
remailers quite a bit.)
>From the excerpt you posted, it doesn't seem as if they were criticizing
remailers... which is a pretty good thing.
>
> Author was Jonathan Gaw; no e-mail address given. Star Tribune Online
> is at http://www.startribune.com