******** Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:36:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Len Sassaman <rabbiat_private> To: <declanat_private> Subject: Current Status of the Anonymous Remailer Network Hi Declan, I thought your Politech readers might be interested in how the remailer network looks, just over a week after the September 11th incidents. Feel free to pass this on. Initial reports gave the impression that the network was weakened because of reactions to the terrorist attacks. On Sept 11th, two remailers (cracker and orange) went offline. According to their operators, however, this was a result of ongoing problems with their ISPs. Cracker did come back online shortly thereafter. Two other remailers shifted into the less conspicuous "middleman mode" to avoid potential abuse situations. Overall, the remailer network has grown in the past week. At present, there are 37 remailers operating[1]. Five of these came online in the past week, and I know of at least three more slated to go live in the next few days, in response to concerns that the network may lose nodes. There have been no reported requests from law enforcement for information about remailer users yet, however. Commercial anonymity service provider Anonymizer is currently offering an anonymous gateway to the FBI's tip site for people who have information concerning the attacks[1]. Likewise, the remailer network could provide a safe mechanism for informants to provide information to the authorities. Also, the latest version of the Mixmaster remailer software was released today, in anticipation of these additional new remailers[3]. --Len. [1] http://mixmaster.shinn.net/stats/mlist show the currently active remailers, and their reliability statistics. [2] http://www.anonymizer.com [3] ftp://ftp.zedz.net/pub/crypto/remailer/mixmaster/mix-2.9b31.tar.gz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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