Actually I do trust the government to leave my messages alone... I'm not doing anything terribly interesting. And even if they are conducting massive surveillance, there's not much they can do about when they catch something juicy because of the 4th amendment to the constitution protects your privacy.
The WWW is very anonymous. If I hadn't used my real name in my email address there is no way you could tell who I am. On the conventional web the only people who can tell who you are and what your doing is your ISP. Even on freenet your ISP still knows who you are, just not what your doing (though they could find out with some work....hmmm question does freenet encrypt node to node communication?). If your really worried about your ISP knowing what your doing in something like email just use some sort of encryption program. Or for the truly paranoid, just go to your local library for 100% anonymity. And the government decides what is legal; they are the only ones that can. Congress makes the laws. The courts enforces them. Simple as that. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Scheffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: RE: anonymity(NOT) Newsgroups: gmane.network.freenet.general Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 17:52:59 +0200 Am Freitag, 6. August 2004 16:36 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Whether or not you truly believe there is no illegal material on > freenet is a question for the jury. Given the fact that there are > numerous warnings about it, a huge number of frost boards are dedicate > to KP, and all the main search pages have many listings for warz and > KP; a jury probably would find it laughable. People do have the right > to communicate with out government oversight everywhere, including the > internet. And freenet is (so far) one of the few proven solutions to communicate anonymously. Or do you trust your government (or any) to leave your messages alone? The point is, if surveillance is possible, it will be done! > If all you do is communicate legal information anonymously > then there is an alternative, its called the world wide web. You are WRONG! Where is anonymity with WWW? And who decides what is "legal", the president, secret service, religous groups? good byte _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general
