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[Hulsebos A]

M Holmes har 'zegd:
>
> A better anon remailer would either maintain a constant flood of traffic
> to prevent traffic analysis, or at least save hundreds of messages and
> mail them all out at once.

Why would that help? The only thing that could prevent traffic analysis
is sending 10 times as much bogus messages out (for the remailer). There's
nothing you can do about traffic analysis on incoming messages, unless
you're spoofing your address. But then noone could ever reply to
that message.....

>
> I did like the dead letter drop in the movie of The Saint though. His
> instructions were encrypted and stegged into a picture dropped as a dead
> letter in a binaries newsgroup. If that had been sent through a decent
> anonymous remailer then it'd be hard to get the message, the sender, or
> the recipient, or indeed even to know there was a message. As perfect a
> spy protocol as you could ask for, which is propably a big part of the
> reason the net worries the spooks so much.

You just have to agree beforehand where to post the encoded messages......
which makes it a little less perfect.

Arjan H

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