At 12:08 PM -0400 2003/10/23, David Maxwell wrote:
I believe the government in question has _far more_ leverage on the ISP
than I do as an individual.
That's assuming that the ISP in question is local. That's not
necessarily a valid assumption. Moreover, with header faking, it can
be difficult to determine which IP addresses are real and which ones
aren't.
Governments can't bug every single ISP in the world. They could
reasonably bug every single known anonymous remailer.
It seems to me that this means spammers can
use the difficulty of this mapping to hide from me, and activists can't
use it to hide from governments.
I disagree. I think there are techniques that are used by
spammers that could also help activists further hide the source of
their connections.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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