[SGVLUG] Internet privacy [was: Re: Need a quick debian or ubuntu test...]

[Charles Wyble]

Uh..... ok..... *backs away slowly*

John E. Kreznar wrote:
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> In a posting purportedly from Charles Wyble <charles at thewybles.com>
> but lacking a digital signature, it is written:
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>>> Sorry, I don't do casual surfing -- too much like breaking radio
>>> silence.
> 
>> Huh? What on earth are you talking about? ...
> 
>> If your [sic] worried about breaking radio silence, then why do you
>> ... use the internet at all?
> 
> Because actually, the Internet can be better at protecting privacy
> than at destroying it.
> 
> Whatever goes out from a site onto the Internet is subject to being
> copied to archives en route.  To thwart this privacy threat,
> encryption and cover traffic can be used to be sure that what's
> archived is useless.
> 
> Little goes out of this site except an encrypted message every 30
> minutes mailed into a chain of random-latency, mixing, anonymizing
> remailers based on mixmaster [1,2], and most of the important incoming
> stuff is in Usenet newsgroup alt.anonymous.messages.
> 
> Each outgoing message is a live communication when one is available,
> else a dummy message which is discarded by the last remailer in the
> chain.  Live or dummy, all outgoing messages are indistinguishable
> except with the decryption keys of the remailers in the chain.
> 
> Inbound, a full feed of alt.anonymous.messages is taken at all times
> without interruption, with selection of wanted traffic only after it's
> on site hidden from observers.
> 
> For example, to look at a web page, one of those live outgoing
> messages could contain an instruction to an untraceable pseudonym on a
> nymserver[3] somewhere to send a request for the page to a web-to-mail
> server.  The nymserver encrypts the response to the nym's public key
> and posts it on alt.anonymous,messages, from which it may be plucked
> it when it appears.
> 
> Arrangements like these have been in daily use here for over ten years
> now.
> 
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mixmaster/.
> [2] See usenet newsgroup alt.privacy.anon-server.
> [3] http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/nymserv
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> - -- 
>  John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
>    If George Orwell were alive now he would be astonished by the fact
>    that the sort of surveillance he feared is supported not by a
>    government imposing it from above on an unwilling population but by a
>    groundswell of popular support.
> 
>    -- Victor Keegan, Guardian Unlimited, Thursday August 4, 2005
>    <http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5254923-103572,00.html>
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