[OT-ish] How big is the UK 'net?

David Wagner daw at mozart.cs.berkeley.edu
29 Jun 2002 00:53:05 GMT


Peter Fairbrother  wrote:
>David Wagner wrote:
>> What's wrong with the existing anonymous remailer (Mixmaster) approach?
>
>When they commence Pt3 of RIPA Plod will be able to demand all remailers's
>RSA keys, and Mixmaster will be b***xx*d, at least in the UK. I wouldn't
>like to bet much on GAK not spreading.

But I fear you're missing the main technical strength of the cypherpunks
remailer system.  The point is that remailers is distributed across the
countries of the world, not collected all in one country.  Jurisdictional
arbitrage, and all that.  http://www.salguod.com/swamp.html