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- From: ranger@titan.ucc.umass.edu (John C. Tennyson)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: Is it really possible to post anonymously?
- Message-ID: <RANGER.92Nov10194318@titan.ucc.umass.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 00:43:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.022934.7881@panther.mot.com> <kg9TTB2w165w@anon.o.mous>
- <Ivan-071192014047@Scratchy.com> <mark.721356209@coombs>
- Sender: usenet@nic.umass.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University Computing Services
- Lines: 43
- Approved: me
- In-Reply-To: mark@coombs.anu.edu.au's message of 10 Nov 92 00:43:29 GMT
-
- In article <mark.721356209@coombs> mark@coombs.anu.edu.au (Mark) writes:
- :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.
- :
- How about just posting to the NNTP host on uu.net and post to the network
- directly.... but to go that far to remain completely anonymous one must
- really be doing something nasty and creul and well, we all know that that is
- a no no.....
-
- PS. NO! i'm not going to post and/or reply to mail messages about the
- whereabouts and/or methods of posting to said NNTP host, suffice it to say
- it exists, and that to bother using it instead of the somewhat anonymous
- methods available the user would have to be doing something really un-nice...
- (Besides its easy to find)
-
- CurrentStupidButCuteObHack:
-
- MUNCHIE: a neat little program which will delete certain files at certain
- intervals accompanied by the message if i'm logged in at the time
- (needless to say it will delete them if i'm not logged in :-) ):
- %% The computer is hungry:
- %% it eats <this.file>
- %% and <the_other_file>
- %% and <even.more.files>
- %% ** BURP **
- I plan on using it as a cute way to kleen up my stupid emacs ~ files
- that i like to keep around for a short while and am to lazy to do it
- by hand.... Not a great hack, but a cute one ;^)
-
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