8.8.1. "Why do some people use message pools?" - Provides untracable communication - messages - secrets - transactions + Pr0duct Cypher is a good example of someone who communicates primarily via anonymous pools (for messages to him). Someone recently asked about this, with this comment: - "Pr0duct Cypher chooses to not link his or her "real life" identity with the 'nym used to sign the software he or she wrote (PGP Tools, Magic Money, ?). This is quite an understandable sentiment, given that bad apples in the NSA are willing to go far beyond legal hassling, and make death threats against folks with high public visibility (see the threads about an NSA agent threatening to run Jim Bidzos of RSA over in his parking lot)." [Richard Johnson, alt.security.pgp, 1994-07-02] 8.8.2. alt.anonymous.messages is one such pool group - though it's mainly used for test messages, discussions of anonymity (though there are better groups), etc. 8.8.3. "Could there be truly anonymous newsgroups?" - One idea: newgroup a moderated group in which only messages sans headers and other identifiers would be accepted. The "moderator"--which could be a program--would only post messages after this was ensured. (Might be an interesting experiment.) + alt.anonymous.messages was newgrouped by Rick Busdiecker, 1994-08. - Early uses were, predictably, by people who stumbled across the group and imputed to it whatever they wished.
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