[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>At 3:28 PM -0400 6/5/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>I'm a columnist for the chicago tribune and someone has called my attention
>>to the remailers on the net that allow you to construct the FROM: field as
>>well as the TO: (manicmail; zoubidoo are two I've found). What do you know
>>about these? Are they new? More common than I know? Do they pose any
>>additional interesting problems legally, morally, ethically, whatever? Any
>>sites on the web I ought to visit re. this?
>>
>>Eric Zorn
>>Chicago Tribune
>>http://www.chicagotribune.com/go/zorn/
>>9450 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. Suite 650
>>Rosemont, Il. 60018-5204
>
>It's not limited to remailers.
>
>Most email packages that I've used on PCs (Mac and Windows) ask
>you to type in your return address when you set up the software.
>
>The return address is not checked in any way, but blindly put into
>the "From:" header.
>
>Eudora, in particular, makes it easy to set up multiple "personalities",
>each with it's own return address.
>--
>-- Marshall
>
>"The era of big government is over."
> Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 23, 1996
>Marshall Clow Adobe Systems <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Zoubidoo includes your IP address in the message headers so your anonymity is about
the same as if you used one of the numerous web-based free email services.
Manicmail doesn't include your IP address so someone who wants to know the true origin
of a message will have to get it from Manicmail's logs. You are very slightly
anonymous - but not really.
These types of services have been around at least 5 or 6 years.
If you're looking for "interesting problems legally, morally, ethically, whatever"
you'd do better considering the potential negative uses of ZeroKnowledge's Freedom.
http://ZeroKnowledge.com/
MST
