At 4:01 PM -0400 2003/10/22, David Maxwell wrote:
If the choice is between 'all mail servers are open, and all users must
accept spam' and 'mail servers authenticate connections in some way, and
activists need to create their own infrastructure to get messages out' -
I'll pick the second.
Would you be willing to bet your life on that? The life of your
family and friends? Would you be willing to have them tortured to
death while you watch, because you made this bet?
To _whom_ are the activists sending their messages? Are they spamming
them to random recipients, or to known contacts? If to known contacts,
why can't they use encryption to hide the content. If they're spamming
to unconsenting recipients, how is that any different (technically) from
commercial spam?
Encryption is usually highly illegal (as in, a capital offense)
in those places where the human rights workers are most likely to be
needed. Yes, they can use steganography techniques to try to hide
the crypto, but they're still taking a serious risk.
You get caught with this sort of stuff, and you get declared an
enemy of the state, guilt of spying and high treason. And then you
get executed.
That's after they torture you and make you watch while they
torture your family and friends to death.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad(_dot_)knowles(_at_)skynet(_dot_)be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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