Re: The Internet and the Law, the Economist, 13-19 January 2001

[Jon Crowcroft]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Garrett Wollman typed
:

 >>Which is, of course, how anonymizing services achieve most of their
 >>value.  If only one person is using an anonymizer, then they are still
 >>effectively traceable.  If, on the other hand, that one person is
 >>mixed in with 140,000 other requests [an actual number] then they are
 >>more likely to be anonymous.
 
even better if you don't identify how MANY other people they are mixed
in with - then if there are n anonymizers, the attackers can't
identift the weakest one to attack first 

 cheers

   jon [an actual name]