future history of remailers

[landon_dyer@wayfarer.com (Landon Dyer)]

  i just picked up greg bear's new SF novel _Slant_.  it's set in mid-
next-century.  i'm only twenty pages into it, so i can't honestly give
it a recommendation yet, but the following is from one of the "chapter
intro" quotes, and it has some cypherpunk-topical stuff in the author's
'techie gobbledygook' in the 2nd paragraph

  [note: possibly offensive ... but if you're on this list, why am i
   bothering to warn you?  :-) ]


>From: Anonymous Remailer
>To: Pope Alexander VII
>Date: December 24 2043
>
>"You're just a Catholic Dickhead, you know that?  Come to my town
>(wouldnt you like to know you shit) sometime and I'll show you a
>GOOD TIME.  Let you bodiguards know that I'm about seven feet tall and
>dressed like the Demons in NUKEY NOOKY which I bet you've plaid too
>you asswipe hippocrit!!!!! Have a nice day!!!!!"
>
>EMAIL Archive (ref Security Inv, Re: Thread = Encyclical 2043 Vatican
>Library> Cultural Tracking STAFF /INDA 332; reverse track through
>Finland> ANONYM REMAIL Code REROUTE> SWITZERLAND/ZIMBABWE> ACCT HDFinster>
>Harrison D. Finster ADDRESS 245 W. Blessoe Street Apt 3-H Greensboro NC
>USA PROFILE> 27 years of age at time of message, >CONCLUSION: FLAME
>PROFILE No action necessary.  ref Vatican Internal Investigator
>comments: "Young, shit for brains.")


  imagine that, the vatican cracking remailers....



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