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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel.anu.edu.au!coombs!mark
- From: mark@coombs.anu.edu.au (Mark)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: Is it really possible to post anonymously?
- Date: 10 Nov 92 00:43:29 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
- Lines: 28
- Approved: news@nsa.mil
- Message-ID: <mark.721356209@coombs>
- References: <1992Nov6.022934.7881@panther.mot.com> <kg9TTB2w165w@anon.o.mous> <Ivan-071192014047@Scratchy.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
- Organisation: Wassat?!
-
- Ivan_Awfulitch@Scratchy.com writes:
-
- >In article <kg9TTB2w165w@anon.o.mous>, hopefully@anon.o.mous wrote:
- >>
- >> asu@panther4.panther.mot.com (Russ Trotter) writes:
- >>
- >> > Hello,
- >> > I know somebody here has got to know this one...but...is
- >> > it really possible to post anonymously...untraceable?
- >> > Is this just a pipe dream?
- >> >
- >> I think so. I'm going to attempt it right now. Note, the signature
-
- There is a clue in that in the Path: line it goes from honeywell!tcscs!nowhere.
- so someone could get the resolution of your machine and if it was something
- that needed to be followed up then a person could contact the sysadmin of your
- machine and get a 'last' of the time of that post.
-
- If someone has access to a hub newsfeeder they could sneak in some sites
- behind them so it looked like it was passing through. I'm not sure if that
- would be nice for the routing algorithm though. It might not arrive at those
- sites which would be yet another clue to narrow it down more.
-
- ObHack:
-
- Living this long...
-
- Mark.
-