theregister.co.uk: Anonymous Remailers Survive Politech Attack
Incognito Innominatus
anonymous at mixmaster.nullify.org
Thu Sep 13 02:18:00 PDT 2001
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21639.html
The anonymous remailer network isn't closing, despite an alarmist and
inaccurate story by Wired's Declan McCullagh, and postings to his own
widely-read Politech mailing list.
Len Sassaman, a security expert and privacy advocate who runs the Randseed
remailer, is cited by McCullagh as having "pulled the plug" on his system
in the wake of the World Trade Center bombings, and the report hinted that
others had too.
But Sassaman's system didn't go off-line and McCullagh, it turns out,
hadn't been in touch to check. An announcement rapidly followed explaining
that Randseed had been switched into middleman mode, which simply prevents
it from being the last machine in the remailer chain.
And real-time statistics at press time showed thirty six Type II
'Mixmaster' remailers in operation, more than are usually running. Many
more Type I remailers were also active.
Sassaman told us that the precaution was to preempt concern about hate
mail or threats being made using the system. His remailer processes around
three thousand messages a day, and out of a million messages over the past
year, only two have drawn the attention of the authorities.
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