Re: [?]Security Basics

From: Thor Kottelin (thor_at_anta.net)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:25:31 +0300

Jason LaRue wrote:
>
> Thor Kottelin <thor@anta.net> wrote in news:40D47A1C.64BECDA0@anta.net:
>
> > Running one's own remailer *is* good for one's own anonymity.

> Mind explaining that one to me? It seems the point of remailers
> is to have your mail come from someone other than yourself.
> Running one's own remailer is certainly admirable and useful
> to others, but it seems that if one sent mail through one's
> own remailer, it would still be immediately traceable to them.

In order to achieve anonymity, remailers should be chained. Using one's own
remailer somewhere in that chain ensures that at least one remailer - one's
own - is trustworthy.

Thor 

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