Hi, as you might have heard, the German parliament (Bundestag) passed a bill concerning the introduction of data retention in Germany. It won't take effect until January 1st 2008 and won't be enforced until January 1st 2009 -- and there's still hope, that it will be successfully challenged at the Federal Constitutional Court in the meantime... But thinking aloud already now, in my opinion I'd rather log (and hope that nobody asks for the data) than close down my service... (I.e. log source IP address and digest for each incoming packet, track packets through the mix pool by their changing digests, and log digest and destination IP / e-mail address for each outgoing packet. BTDT, and disabled it again...) Particularly, it would be useful if all the logged data were useless (no pun intended), as only already anonymous connections would be allowed -- i.e. I'm thinking along the lines of using a Tor DNS blacklist [1] as a *white*list, plus whitelisting the other mixminion nodes, and rejecting all other packets... 1. http://www.sectoor.de/tor.php Any thoughts about how this would affect overall usability of the mixminion network? Any other comments? Ciao Tobias -- mbox:admin@tainaron
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