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John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:03:22 -0500
Bear in mind that there's a pretty good market for TLA-blessed
products in all countries. In the US few manufacturers would
not be eager to do what SafeWeb has done, and many, if not
most, are already doing so.
That just means that other nations' producers are presented
with opportunities to market antidote snakeoils.
I don't know of any anonymizer, repeat any, that provide
untraceable anonymity. As with compsec in general. The
issue is how much do you want short of perfection and
are willing to expend resources for. For example, the only
trustworthy way to use the Internet is to not use it at all.
Same with computers, networked or standalone. If you
cannot do without either you have an unsolvable security
and privacy problem no matter what digital apologists/
advocates and security marketers claim.
Still, it is pleasant to be offered illusory security and
privacy. CIA enjoys that as with the rest of us.