RE: Kevin Mitnik

[Random H0Z3R <nobody@c2.org>]

Kent Borg wrote:

> I am under the impression that I would not like Mitnik personally, but I
> have never personaly met him...

> Would I turn him in?  Well, put it this way: I would not harbor him but 
> neither would I work very hard to figure out where he is or whether a 
> particular "nobody" on this list be him.

Somehow, I get the idea that the "nobody" you're referring to is yours 
truly.  Well, I'm not him, but your suspicion does bring up a valuable 
point, though:  if you're suspicious that a certain "chained remailer user" 
is the infamous Mr. Mitnik, then certain TLAs might also share that 
suspicion.  Therefore, anyone using such "underground" services as 
anonymous remailers should use exceeding care.  If they start to use 
traffic analysis, or any of the other "sigint" techniques discussed here, 
even though you aren't Mr. Mitnik, you may well get "caught" in their 
"dragnet".