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Re: [tor-talk] On the Theory of Remailers
From: "Moritz Bartl" <moritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 07.01.2013 21:53, David H. Lipman wrote:
I'm hoping this will be of interest to this list. To encourage
interest in the waning art of remailers, I'm starting what I aim to be
a long series on how they work, design choices, technical limitations,
and attacks. The first five are now live at https://crypto.is/blog/
I hope you fully elaborate on how remailers are used for abuse.
Without being racial, sounds like an "American idea" to me, similar to
crazy Disclaimers on almost every product. If every system ever invented
would come with an elaboration on how it is being abused (hey, that's in
the name, AB-USE) that list would most likely be illegal for most things
(because assisting crime is illegal in most places) and otherwise very
tiresome.
I'm afraid you are as YOU state "sounds like an "American idea" to me"...
If you are looking for studies on abuse of remailer technology, no
larger instance so far bothers to collect figures. Same for Tor. How
could Tom know?
Yes, this is indeed a sad state. Everything and everyone needs more open
data.
As one data point, unlikely to be of relevance for neither Tor nor
remailers: We run both, and judging from a comparison of bandwidth
consumption or passed messages vs. abuse complaints (because that's all
I can take into account): widely below one percent. That's my rough
estimate -- sorry, I would like to have better statistics but I
currently don't. Are there any on "general abusive Internet traffic"?
What is that? In the case of remailers, it's additionally hard because
of all the dummy traffic.
Also, in the end all abuse statistics can and always will be only about
"reported abuse", not actual abuse.
I am not basing it on abuse complaints, I am basing it based upon viewed
abuse. I have been on Usenet a long time and I often see remailers used to
post abuse to Usenet. I have seen personal attack campaigns using numerous
systems to perform the attacks such as; dizum.com, remailer.privacy.at,
remailer.paranoici.org and anonymitaet-im-inter.net to name a few. Te
systems were used for privacy b ut were used tol obfuscate one's identity
whiles committing the abuse of an individual or on Usenet as a whole.
BTW: Since you have www.torsewrvers.net in your signature, I will also add
that I have seen Usenet abuse through that system as well.
The following is an example of a very recent spam campaign
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Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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