crosspost re remailers

Sorry to send this in blind.  Over a year ago I switched from watching
the "mutitions" R&D works to being an observer/participant on a small
"test war."  Once in a while, I send in a report.  If you have comments
which you want me to see, email them.  Thanks,  Keith Henson

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Hoyos (hoyos@millenium.texas.net) wrote:
: henry (henri@netcom.com) wrote:

: : >What I find disturbing is certain people who were visibly outraged by
: : >Steven Fishman's "outings" are supportive of the remailer abuse, _as_well_

: : remailer ABUSE?  how is it remailer ABUSE to use them for their
: : intended purposes.

: Remailers exist to destroy copyrights?  I always thought they were around 
: to ensure a certain amount of anonymity, not to permit people to destroy 
: copyrights and get away with it. 

Hoyos, you *can't* destroy copyright, period.  Trade secrets are another
matter, and I suppose you can make a case that the ability of a certain
powerful cult to extract money or labor from the gulible has been reduced. 

I know some of the people who wrote the first cypherpunk remailers.  
They have been watching the uses to which the remailers have been put.
The long drawn out battle between the CoS and the Net has been of as
much interest to them as the performance of large guns at the front
was to Krup.   I can't speak for all of them--actually, I can't speak
for *any* of them, but the ones who have said anything about the
recent uses of the remailers do not seem unhappy.  There may be
some discussion related to this on the cypherpunks mailing list.
But if you sign up, be prepaired for a flood.  Keith Henson

Crossposted to cypherpunks

On Tue, 14 May 1996, Keith Henson wrote:

> was to Krup.   I can't speak for all of them--actually, I can't speak
> for *any* of them, but the ones who have said anything about the
> recent uses of the remailers do not seem unhappy.  There may be
> some discussion related to this on the cypherpunks mailing list.

Actually, there hasn't really been any discussion on cypherpunks, which I
find a little surprising. I'd have thought that a remailer going down
because of political/legal pressure would raise more of a ruckus. People
seem jaded, but I'm not sure why.

I posted a half dozen articles to comp.org.eff.talk, more to stimulate
discussion than to argue a position. We trolled up a statement from Hal
Finney to the effect that remailers might need to be restricted in order
to save them -- which I found to be rather provocative, but nobody said
anything. Anybody?

-rich

> anything. Anybody?
> 

	I'm still waiting for my subpoena. I feel like a failure
without it.

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> On Tue, 14 May 1996, Keith Henson wrote:
> 
> > was to Krup.   I can't speak for all of them--actually, I can't speak
> > for *any* of them, but the ones who have said anything about the
> > recent uses of the remailers do not seem unhappy.  There may be
> > some discussion related to this on the cypherpunks mailing list.
> 
> Actually, there hasn't really been any discussion on cypherpunks, which I
> find a little surprising. I'd have thought that a remailer going down
> because of political/legal pressure would raise more of a ruckus. People
> seem jaded, but I'm not sure why.
> 
> I posted a half dozen articles to comp.org.eff.talk, more to stimulate
> discussion than to argue a position. We trolled up a statement from Hal
> Finney to the effect that remailers might need to be restricted in order
> to save them -- which I found to be rather provocative, but nobody said
> anything. Anybody?

The remailer capacity is quite underdone, there aren't really 
that many remailer servers out there.  Only TWO servers outside
the US.  Only ONE server making direct posts to netnews.  And
what, two or three nym servers?  Obviously this is severe 
undercapacity and we need to start up MUCH more servers and
FAST, ESPECIALLY in foriegn countries.

IMHO, trying to make it more user friendly to use remailers
is pointless considering the limited number of servers to use.

I'm CLUELESS about this stuff, I'd love to help, at least by
distributing code and exact intructions to make it as easy
as possible to encourage clueless types to start it up.

So what is the expense of setting up a full-featured server
like hacktic?  Mr. Graves should start up a new server, and
tcmay is rich, so he has no excuse.



-- 
		God grant me the serenity to accept
		the things I cannot change,
		the courage to change the things I can,
		and the wisdom to know the difference

On Wed, 15 May 1996, Be Good wrote:
> 
> So what is the expense of setting up a full-featured server
> like hacktic?  Mr. Graves should start up a new server, and
> tcmay is rich, so he has no excuse.

	No, rich is a good excuse for _not_ doing it, unless it can be
done with total anonymity. If I set up a remailer, on my home computer, as
an individual, then I am a very little target. I have nothing (well, damn
little) for anyone to sue me over. What would be the point? They threaten
to sue me for what? They would spend FAR more than they could ever get out
of me, and as long as I don't violate any laws, I _might_ be able to get
"big guns" like the ACLU, EFF etc. on my side to make it a nasty fight for
no return. 
	Someone like Mr. May has assets that can be gotten, so there is
potential for gain from a lawsuit against him, both financially and
otherwise. 

	Rich is neither reason, nor excuse. Capability is the issue. It
would probably be easier for me to run a remailer than Mr. May, not that I
am better equipped mentally, but (until I started posting to this list).

	Come to think of it, would the Mixmaster package run under Xenix?
I have a 286 laying around collecting dust...

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@crash.suba.com

> 	Come to think of it, would the Mixmaster package run under Xenix?
> I have a 286 laying around collecting dust...

relay@suburbia.net is running a type2 remailer (mixmaster)

Use at will.

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> 
> On Wed, 15 May 1996, Be Good wrote:
> > 
> > So what is the expense of setting up a full-featured server
> > like hacktic?  Mr. Graves should start up a new server, and
> > tcmay is rich, so he has no excuse.
> 
> 	No, rich is a good excuse for _not_ doing it, unless it can be
> done with total anonymity. If I set up a remailer, on my home computer, as
> an individual, then I am a very little target. I have nothing (well, damn
> little) for anyone to sue me over. What would be the point? They threaten
> to sue me for what? They would spend FAR more than they could ever get out
> of me, and as long as I don't violate any laws, I _might_ be able to get
> "big guns" like the ACLU, EFF etc. on my side to make it a nasty fight for
> no return. 

I wasn't thinking of liability, just capacity.

And you don't understand political harrassment suits.
Would you believe that someone worth $50,000 could be served a
$10,200,000 judgement by a jury, fully upheld by the Oregon and U.S.
Supreme courts, Dwelling, business, custumers' property seized,
25% of income annexed for 20 years, all by the plaintiff with
the assistance of the court, merely for publicy speaking to a crowd,
the advocacy of violence, when later that night two members of the
audience murdered a stranger apparantly following that "advice,"
with the plaintiff publicly gloating before|during|post trial, that the
actual violence was merely a VEHICLE for the SUPPRESSION of the
organization of the advocacy of the ENTIRE political spectrum of the
defendants?

Ask our resident "free speech for RESPECTABLE dissidents,"
L. Lurch@stanford.edu (racial capitali$t d0g)
for a virulent defense of Co$ style tactics against racists.
Ask him about SPLC, Seraw vs WAR, Tom, John METZGER.

Straight from the horses ass, go to the library and read 89-93 issues
of KLANWATCH to find out what lying oriental anti-racists
are ADVOCATING and GETTING.

What the hell is the difference between the anti-racist tactics
of Co$ and SPLC, and being forced to your knees by the policeman's
nightstick, merely for advocating "moronic" politics? 
The VIOLENCE to free speech rights is the same.

> 	Someone like Mr. May has assets that can be gotten, so there is
> potential for gain from a lawsuit against him, both financially and
> otherwise. 

Do you really think that SPLC and Co$ sue to raise funds?

> 	Rich is neither reason, nor excuse. Capability is the issue. It

True, I doubt he would take the risk.  What we mean is that once
an EASY remailer tech is distributed, THOUSANDS will seriously be
interested in it.  After all, did the complexity of linux keep
100,000+ unix newbies from learning *ix from scratch?

> would probably be easier for me to run a remailer than Mr. May, not that I
> am better equipped mentally, but (until I started posting to this list).
> 
> 	Come to think of it, would the Mixmaster package run under Xenix?
> I have a 286 laying around collecting dust...

Ugh.  I've got a 386 and 4megs, partitioned and compiled linux, pgp,
Mixmaster.  It WILL work once mastering the darned thing.

IMHO, the IDEAL remailer is the following:

What CAN be done right now, with anyone with linux and shell unix,
account paid by fake name/address with postal money order,
is have the linux machine dial up the account, several times a day,
process the mailbox, download the mail, process the mail with pgp or 
mixmaster, upload to account, post/email with the appropriate 
header lines and VOILA!!  

!!!!!!!!!! FULL FEATURED HACKTIC STYLE REMAILER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately I DON'T know how to DO any of this.
Isn't someone else want to crank something out and share?
Post around instructions for the clueless to follow.

There.  The number of full featured remailers increases from 0 to 100-300+.






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Serenity, etc.

I responded to Skippy's on-topic, more or less substantive questions about
remailers in Message-ID
<Pine.GUL.3.93.960518010958.19939C-100000@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
This has absolutely nothing to do with crypto, but that's what I
subscribed to coderpunks for.

On Fri, 17 May 1996, Dave Harman wrote:

> Ask our resident "free speech for RESPECTABLE dissidents,"
> L. Lurch@stanford.edu (racial capitali$t d0g)
> for a virulent defense of Co$ style tactics against racists.
> Ask him about SPLC, Seraw vs WAR, Tom, John METZGER.

I grew up 15 minutes from Metzger and played soccer with one of his kids,
and he threatened some friends of mine.  I've talked to his sidekick Wyatt
Kaldenberg about other things, and defended their absolute right to free
speech on occasion. But other than that, I don't know much about Metzger.
Skippy seems to have this illusion that I'm some big bad anti-racist,
which I find amusing. 

Another WAR/CoS mal-analogy one could scrawl is that Metzger has paid
about as much of the judgement awarded to the murder victim's family as
CoS has paid to Wollersheim. But I wouldn't follow that line of reasoning
myself, since I'm no fan of the SPLC. Maybe they did a good thing in the
Seraw murder case, but their current suit agaist Pierce's neo-Nazi
National Alliance seems rather SLAPP-ish to me.  I'm sure Morty would try
to justify going after deep-pocket racists by saying that they deserve it
because the $4.5 million or so that The Order White Nationalist
Revolutionary [cough] Movement liberated from banks and convenience stores
has never been recovered, but he's wrong. Sure Bobby claimed to be doing
those robberies in the name of the Aryan Cause, but it looks like he
really spent the money on himself, just like any other "political" crook
(the Contras, the FMLN, Sendero, the Machateros, the US Congress, etc).

The SPLC probably has a web server somewhere with more details, but
there's a minimal amount of information about the case at:

 http://www.almanac.bc.ca/cgi-bin/ftp.pl?people/m/metzger.tom
 http://www.almanac.bc.ca/cgi-bin/ftp.pl?orgs/american/war

Tom Metzger's web page (sorry, it's actually John Metzger's web page,
which happens to carry all sorts of stuff from Tom -- you see, facing a 
$10 court judgement upheld by the Supreme Court, Tom has sworn an oath of
poverty to avoid giving the Zionist Occupational Government any more
blood money)  is at:

 http://www.free.cts.com/crash/m/metzger/

-rich
 http://www.c2.org/~rich/Not_By_Me_Not_My_Views/rebuttal.html

> I responded to Skippy's on-topic, more or less substantive questions about
> remailers in Message-ID
> <Pine.GUL.3.93.960518010958.19939C-100000@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
> This has absolutely nothing to do with crypto, but that's what I
> subscribed to coderpunks for.
> 
> On Fri, 17 May 1996, Dave Harman wrote:
> 
> > Ask our resident "free speech for RESPECTABLE dissidents,"
> > L. Lurch@stanford.edu (racial capitali$t d0g)
> > for a virulent defense of Co$ style tactics against racists.
> > Ask him about SPLC, Seraw vs WAR, Tom, John METZGER.
> 
> I grew up 15 minutes from Metzger and played soccer with one of his kids,
> and he threatened some friends of mine.  I've talked to his sidekick Wyatt
> Kaldenberg about other things, and defended their absolute right to free
> speech on occasion. But other than that, I don't know much about Metzger.
> Skippy seems to have this illusion that I'm some big bad anti-racist,
> which I find amusing. 

Another non-rebutted rebuttal.  I care nothing about yours or
Metzgers personal life, this is FAR ramnificated severity.

And, the anology I made CLEARLY was the similarity between 
Co$ and SPLC; And the VICTIMS: WAR and Wollersheim,Fishman,etc.
CO$ AND WAR DON'T HAVE THE SLIGHTEST RESEMBLANCE!!!:

> Another WAR/CoS mal-analogy one could scrawl is that Metzger has paid
> about as much of the judgement awarded to the murder victim's family as
> CoS has paid to Wollersheim. But I wouldn't follow that line of reasoning
> myself, since I'm no fan of the SPLC. Maybe they did a good thing in the

And, the anology I made CLEARLY was the similarity between 
Co$ and SPLC; And the VICTIMS: WAR and Wollersheim,Fishman,etc.
CO$ AND WAR DON'T HAVE THE SLIGHTEST RESEMBLANCE!!!:

> Seraw murder case, but their current suit agaist Pierce's neo-Nazi
> National Alliance seems rather SLAPP-ish to me.  I'm sure Morty would try

SPLC vs WAR set the SHOCKING precedent.

> to justify going after deep-pocket racists by saying that they deserve it
> because the $4.5 million or so that The Order White Nationalist
> Revolutionary [cough] Movement liberated from banks and convenience stores
> has never been recovered, but he's wrong. Sure Bobby claimed to be doing

ADL claimed $50,000 was funneled to NA from the beginning.
No proof whatsoever, as they havn't pressed the matter to proceedings.

> those robberies in the name of the Aryan Cause, but it looks like he
> really spent the money on himself, just like any other "political" crook
> (the Contras, the FMLN, Sendero, the Machateros, the US Congress, etc).

You mean he laundered the money right before his death, and
his hiers got it all?  WOW!  What a Don!

> The SPLC probably has a web server somewhere with more details, but
> there's a minimal amount of information about the case at:
> 
>  http://www.almanac.bc.ca/cgi-bin/ftp.pl?people/m/metzger.tom
>  http://www.almanac.bc.ca/cgi-bin/ftp.pl?orgs/american/war

These say nothing.  SPLC has avoided the net, because
it's two periodicals are so embarrassing to the anti-racists.
You need to go to the library and check up on Klanwatch
for the years 89-93 for the sordid details.

> Tom Metzger's web page (sorry, it's actually John Metzger's web page,
> which happens to carry all sorts of stuff from Tom -- you see, facing a 
> $10 court judgement upheld by the Supreme Court, Tom has sworn an oath of

$10,200,000!!!!   25% of income confiscated for 20 years!!!

> poverty to avoid giving the Zionist Occupational Government any more
> blood money)  is at:

Ignoroid, ALL the Metzger funds are being transfered with
the large mulatto Seraw family as sole beneficiary.
Co$/SPLC political harassment cases are NOT done to
raise funds, but suppress organisation.

>  http://www.free.cts.com/crash/m/metzger/
> 
> -rich
>  http://www.c2.org/~rich/Not_By_Me_Not_My_Views/rebuttal.html
> 
> 


-- 
		God grant me the serenity to accept
		the things I cannot change,
		the courage to change the things I can,
		and the wisdom to know the difference

On Fri, 17 May 1996, Dave Harman wrote:

> IMHO, the IDEAL remailer is the following:
> 
> What CAN be done right now, with anyone with linux and shell unix,
> account paid by fake name/address with postal money order,
> is have the linux machine dial up the account, several times a day,
> process the mailbox, download the mail, process the mail with pgp or 
> mixmaster, upload to account, post/email with the appropriate 
> header lines and VOILA!!  
> 
> !!!!!!!!!! FULL FEATURED HACKTIC STYLE REMAILER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Unfortunately I DON'T know how to DO any of this.
> Isn't someone else want to crank something out and share?
> Post around instructions for the clueless to follow.

Actually, you can be even more clueless than that and still run a
remailer, pretty much as you describe. See:

 http://www.c2.org/~winsock/

But that requires MicroSnot software rather than Linux, and of course,
your ISP is liable to shut you down, without notice, as soon as they
realize what you're doing. The service location and survivability problems
remain. 

The POP/SMTP remailer idea has a lot of promise forprospective remailer
operators who are clueless and/or lack a full-time net connection, but you
still need to be upfront with your ISP about the fact that you're running
a remailer. The best ISPs will let you. I'm quite impressed with Portal
(or does Hal have something on them?), but I doubt Netcom would let you
into the remailer racket. 

c2.org, of course, has enough remailers on it already, but I did play
with the WinSock Remailer for a bit. It should be quite trivial to hack
something like it together for Linux. Just run fetchmail or whatever as a
POP client, pipe the mail spool to your mixmaster, and SMTP away.

-rich
 http://www.almanac.bc.ca/cgi-bin/ftp.pl?people/m/metzger.tom
 http://www.almanac.bc.ca/cgi-bin/ftp.pl?orgs/american/war
 http://www.free.cts.com/crash/m/metzger/

On Wed, 15 May 1996, Be Good wrote:

> 
> The remailer capacity is quite underdone, there aren't really 
> that many remailer servers out there.  Only TWO servers outside
> the US.  Only ONE server making direct posts to netnews.  And
> what, two or three nym servers?  Obviously this is severe 
> undercapacity and we need to start up MUCH more servers and
> FAST, ESPECIALLY in foriegn countries.
[..]
> 
> I'm CLUELESS about this stuff, I'd love to help, at least by
> distributing code and exact intructions to make it as easy
> as possible to encourage clueless types to start it up.
> 
> So what is the expense of setting up a full-featured server
> like hacktic?  Mr. Graves should start up a new server, and
> tcmay is rich, so he has no excuse.

Exactly.  I'd like to here some remarks from people who have ran remailers
regarding what kind of bend it has put on their bandwidth and servers.  I
just happen to Admin. several servers on the other side of a leased
line...

Josh Richards (jrichard@slonet.org) (jrichard@fix.net)
SLO Street Tech Development (Computer Services)
<URL:http://www.fix.net/jrichard>