At 11:33 AM -0400 8/5/01, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Last I checked, the vast bulk of remailers were in North America and
>Europe. Given sufficient provocation (Bush twins kidnapped, Osama
>talking biochemwomdterror in DC), I could easily see a coordinated set
>of pre-dawn raids to "gather evidence" and seize computers as part of
>a criminal investigation. Obviously the servers would have to be held
>as potential evidence for a trial - did they keep logs? our techs will
>find out - which could take a decade. This would cripple the current
>remailer network and generate almost no public outcry beyond the
>cypherpunks and such.
Were that to happen, I'd bet a bunch of new remailers would be in place before
the heliocopters were finished refueling.
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