Hi, A post on alt.privacy.anon-server dated Thursday claims that the "Frog" anonymous remailer has been seized by French police. For the last few months, "Frog" had been running a statistics service similar to the one Raph Levien used to have at UC-Berkeley. The admin has also had a fairly high-profile role in the a.p.a-s newsgroup, announcing new remailers and suspected closures of old ones. Along with the Electronic Frontiers Georgia stats list, the "Frog" stats were the source I used to keep track of which remailers were reliable. The "Frog" name is because he's supposedly French. (yes, maybe remailer operating isn't a safe hobby for French citizens). A post dated today (Saturday may 6) at 13:45 claims that the remailer has been compromised by French police and will be placed back online. Anyone have any hard information on this? Want to speculate on whether this happened as claimed or not? speculate on ways to ways to defend remailer stats providers/reputation services against this kind of reputation attack? speculate on ways to protect users from seized remailer nodes (splitting a private key among computers in several jurisdictions and sending an intermediate message to all of 'em before forwarding to the next logical "remailer" ?) ? Thanks, -David Molnar
