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Re: Transitive trust and MLM
On Thu, 9 May 1996, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
> From: IN%"[email protected]" "Rich Graves" 8-MAY-1996
> 04:33:21.44
>
> >The fact that you're sending postcards is only a problem if you don't want
> >them to be read. It's more the email I receive that I worry about, so all
> >my friends use the address [email protected] now.
>
> How would this help? Whoever's wanting to monitor you will just
> monitor [email protected]'s incoming mail.
To do that they would need to crack one or more of the accounts with
access to the alpha server, which would probably leave evidence, or run a
packet sniffer nearby. Ironically, I am more confident of the security of
alpha.c2.org than I am of my own machine. The threat profile is people who
have forwarded mail with envelope and Received: headers indicating that
the source is my mail spool to a mailing list. Twice. I know that I'm
surrounded by insecure, non-firewalled UNIX boxes that could be running
packet sniffers, and that is something I cannot fix unless I want to trade
gloriously fast and reliable Ethernet connectivity for a modem. My
correspondents do not have PGP and are not likely to get it. So, a public
alpha nym helps in this (perhaps unique) case.
[email protected] also works as a permanent address (knock on wood).
-rich