nymph.paranoici.org

just curious . . .

(using Tor Browser 14.5.4)
http://nymph.paranoici.org/

PARANOIA REMAILER homepage
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What is
An anonymous remailer is essentially a service to hide one's identity when
sending messages by e-mail.
Why should you want to hide your identity?
Because the Internet looks increasingly like a big square full of CCTVs where it
is impossible to move without being monitored. 
Despite the big hype about privacy and the right to privacy, we think that this
is just a camouflage to disguise the fact that in the Web political liberties are
decreasing, and institutions are pushing towards this so that privacy does not 
belong to individuals anymore and becomes a privilege bestowed by the powerful 
within well-defined limits, in order to ensure a "fair" control over every
citizen and her activities.
No matter how loud people can bark about control of information being necessary
in order to keep order, though, we believe that this control is not only
unnecessary and useless in this sense, but that freedom of communication (because 
it only comes down to this) is every induvidual's fundamental right, and that 
restraining it is a way to forbid any critical voice and any moral or ideological 
dissent.
Take a loot at this article from Bruce Schneier: The eternal value of privacy. 
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/05/70886  *see quoted link below
Articolo sul valore della privacy di Bruce Schneier: Il valore eterno della
privacy
That's why we want to offer this tool -- in order to claim the need/right to
anonymity, in order to oppose the odious attitude according to which if you're
trying to hide it means that you have something to hide, in order to favour the
spreading of "secure" anonymity systems, because we don't want to have 
"anonymous" mailboxes with Hotmail, because those mailboxes have nothing
anonymous, and even if you register with false data it can always be traced back
to your real identity. For a world net of anonymous remailers exists already, and
the only secure way of using these tools is by using them in a chain, so it is
crucial to have as many rings possible in every single chain, because the more
people use these tools, the more difficult it is to shut them down.
Per una descrizione degli anonymous remailer in italiano leggetevi questo pdf:
introduzione ai remailers
We have a type II mixmaster remailer, which accepts messages in bot cypherpunk
(type I) and mixmaster (type II) format.
If you use the cypherpunk format, remember that this remailer only accepts
messages encrypted with its public key.
If you wish to receive the remailer keys, send a message to
mixmaster@remailer.paranoici.org
with the subject "remailer-key".
If you wish to see the usage stats, send a message to
mixmaster@remailer.paranoici.org
with the subject "remailer-stats"
If you don't want to receive messages from this remailer, send a message to
mixmaster@remailer.paranoici.org
entering in the subject: DESTINATION-BLOCK
If you want to contact remailer admin, write to: remailer-
admin@remailer.paranoici.org
Links
 autistici.org
 crypto software (obsolete)
Guides
 remailer FAQ
 Introduzione ai remailers
 remailer intro
 APAS FAQ

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*quoted link . . .
 
(using Tor Browser 14.5.4)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080817071906/wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/05/70886

The Eternal Value of Privacy
Bruce Schneier Email 05.18.06
The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID
checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures
-- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
Some clever answers: "If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to
watch me." "Because the government gets to define what's wrong, and they keep
changing the definition." "Because you might do something wrong with my
information." My problem with quips like these -- as right as they are -- is that
they accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy
is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition
with dignity and respect.
Two proverbs say it best: Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? ("Who watches the
watchers?") and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Cardinal Richelieu understood the value of surveillance when he famously said,
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I
would find something in them to have him hanged." Watch someone long enough, and
you'll find something to arrest -- or just blackmail -- with. Privacy is
important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep,
to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be
at the time.
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing
wrong at the time of surveillance.
We do nothing wrong when we make love or go to the bathroom. We are not
deliberately hiding anything when we seek out private places for reflection or
conversation. We keep private journals, sing in the privacy of the shower, and
write letters to secret lovers and then burn them. Privacy is a basic human need.
A future in which privacy would face constant assault was so alien to the
framers of the Constitution that it never occurred to them to call out privacy as
an explicit right. Privacy was inherent to the nobility of their being and their
cause. Of course being watched in your own home was unreasonable. Watching at all
was an act so unseemly as to be inconceivable among gentlemen in their day. You
watched convicted criminals, not free citizens. You ruled your own home. It's
intrinsic to the concept of liberty.
For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of
correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become
children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that -- either now or
in the uncertain future -- patterns we leave behind will be brought back to
implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private
and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is
observable and recordable.
How many of us have paused during conversation in the past four-and-a-half
years, suddenly aware that we might be eavesdropped on? Probably it was a phone
conversation, although maybe it was an e-mail or instant-message exchange or a
conversation in a public place. Maybe the topic was terrorism, or politics, or
Islam. We stop suddenly, momentarily afraid that our words might be taken out of
context, then we laugh at our paranoia and go on. But our demeanor has changed,
and our words are subtly altered.
This is the loss of freedom we face when our privacy is taken from us. This is
life in former East Germany, or life in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. And it's our
future as we allow an ever-intrusive eye into our personal, private lives.
Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real
choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of
foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is
still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus
privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state.
And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.
- - -
Bruce Schneier is the CTO of Counterpane Internet Security and the author of
Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World. You can
contact him through his website.

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i've never used nyms (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/privacy/anon-server/faq/use/part7),
but "nymph.paranoici.org" is included in sec3's current "complete list of what is
allowed through the mail relay", so nyms must still be popular with its anonymous
remailer users (see omnimix tutorial https://www.danner-net.de/omom/tutornym.htm)
 
but for posting articles (whether clear text or encrypted) into the public domain,
usenet newsgroups are the only public forum available via the internet where this
is still possible, and using anonymous remailers for this purpose is probably the
easiest way to remain anonymous (i.e., in the worldly, temporal, litigious "avoid
not evade" sense of incurring liability), and of course, no one was ever actually
"anonymous" in the natural sense (i.e. in the galactic balance, every erratum...)
 
plain text usenet newsgroups are the last vestige of uncensored free speech (i.e.
less subject to preemptive exclusion or subsequent deletion from public scrutiny)
thus is why every active newsgroup has been systematically targeted by troll farm
"demoralization warfare" propaganda obviously intended to discourage unauthorized
public expression in any form, and their tactics are militarized and nothing less
 
somehow, usenet has withstood their global supremacy, and by now most subscribers
and contributors have learned to use newsreaders with scoring/filters to minimize
their adversity to this user's network, and to avoid their pseudonymity snake oil