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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:54:49 -0400
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:45:03 -0500 From: Bob Alberti <alberti () sanction net> Subject: RE: [IP] Identifying your posters To: dave () farber net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There are as many ways to create anonymous posts as there are ways to skin a cat. If one is concerned about such things and not already maintaining anonymous free e-mail accounts then one is truly negligent. Asking a list admin to massage even a portion of the posts across a list is not only inexcusably lazy, but reckless: if the list admin makes a mistake your identity may be revealed. And not only is it likely that our list admin has better things to do than anonymize posts, but he is opening himself up to liability everytime he agrees to modify someone else's post. Should he risk a lawsuit for damages following an insufficiently-anonymized post that leads to a termination? If the list admin wishes to provide an anonymous posting channel, I suggest a simple web-based submission form, that does not collect identity, which he could then review before deciding whether to post to the list. If the list admin were confident that his form collected no identifying information then he could be confident that his anonymizing would not fail. Non-expert posters would have only his word that the form collected no identifying information, but then that is the case on every form on the Web. If a USER wishes to post anything anonymously anywhere on the web, then I suggest they begin by finding a web cafe, since all posts can be theoretically be traced back to you at your ISP. (In practice of course this is unlikely, but then good paranoia does not yield to mere reason.) Once you've got an anonymous access point selectred, search Google for phrases such as "anonymous remailer" and "anonymous proxy" and you're on your way. Bob Alberti, CISSP, President Sanction, Inc. Phone: (612) 486-5000 ext 211 PO Box 583453 http://www.sanction.net Mpls, MN 55458-3453 Most security breaches are 'inside jobs': how secure are your HR files? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBP2CmjMdfCzls9EBAEQIB3wCdEgxFGlt+1Io4ZeQfDvW4MqOt9MkAn0bN DvSbEEUOPOJaAjlpaTlIZrHt =zhQe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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