At 01:01 PM 8/27/03 -0700, Jim McCoy wrote: >While IANL, it seems that the whole anonymity game has a flaw that >doesn't even require a totalitarian regime. I would direct you to the >various laws in the US (to pick a random example :) regarding >conspiracy. Subscribing to an anonymity service might not become >illegal, but if anyone in your "crowd" was performing an illegal action >you may be guilty of conspiracy to commit this action.
Ok, so you have a EULA in which you prohibit "offensive" behavior. A crowd-member might violate this, but any "chaff" crowd-member would have a legal defense ---"Hey, I used the foobar service to avoid hackers finding my IP, its not my fault if someone threatened the king" A real police state would just Tomahawk the servers. After rubber hosing the operators. Anything less than a Total Police State would have to acknowledge innocent subscribers. Kinda like (ca. 1980) yeah, I have a cell phone, its because I am on the road ---I'm not a pharmdealer, even if half the carrier's traffic is dubious. Or, moving into this century, "yeah, I use KaZaa++, but its to download unrecognized indie bands, not MetalliMadonna" (assuming K++ were anonymous..) Of course, its becoming easier and easier to be a total police state.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
