Re: HELP NEEDED FROM S'ONE WHO DEEPLY UNDERSTANDS EMAIL & WEB SECURITY

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From: those who know me have no need of my name <not-a-real-address@usa.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:35:39 -0000

[fu-t set]

<e3fd4fa6.0202240210.4e5f62eb@posting.google.com> divulged:

>3. What I want to do is put up an anonymous web site

yahoo is fairly anonymous. cotse might be better, though there's
less ease of use.

>and provide secure ways for people to access it and write to it.

this isn't easy to do. once google begins caching the site others won't
have to view it directly, but that can take a while (weeks or months)
and that sounds too long for you. ssl is an option, but it would be
possible for the company to detect those connections, including who
originated it. so it's probably best if people don't use it from the
office.

others can use the anonymous remailer network to send things to the
site, and you can use it to respond to them. (be careful, a "worker"
giving you a juicy bit of dirt might really be an investigator for the
company, so always use e-mail and only use multiple remailer hops, even
if that takes time and is somewhat prone to failure.)

>4. If any juicy info about top management will be on the site (and I
>believe it will) it is certain that they will put cyber detectives on
>the trail to try and find out who is responsible, and my head may
>roll. They may also try all kinds of ways to punish those they
>discover accessing the site, or to close the site down.

there are always risks.

>The company has a central network from which virtually all workers
>have e-mail access.

you should never use their network while doing this.

>I need the web site besides being secure and anonymous

the combination is hard to come by in an anonymous site.

>also to be free and extremely simple to use

yahoo certainly embodies these two, but it's not really very secure.

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