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[Remops] Re: Complete disregard of end-users by
Sassaman. AGAIN. Plus another kick under the belt
against whistle-blowers.

Katherine kat@the.whole.net
Fri May 16 10:25:02 2003

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On Thu, 15 May 2003, Len Sassaman wrote:

>I had been giving Frog-Admin the benefit of a doubt, up until the very
>end, when I had overwhelming circumstantial evidence that he was the
>origin of the latest flood. I even sent him private mail, offering to
>meet with him and discuss the current attacks on the remailer network
>in the case that we were being played against each other by a common
>adversary. (Frog-Admin did not reply).


Suprised? I'm not.  I think most people who are on this list or read
apas aren't surprised, either.

>I will be publishing an analysis of this latest attack, as well as the
>past attacks against my remailer. What concerns me most about the
>nature of these attacks, however, is that they began almost immediately
>after I assumed the maintainer role for Mixmaster. Subsequent attacks
>against other remops commenced after they began to get actively
>involved in Mixmaster development. The conclusion that Frog-Admin's
>goals are to hinder development and deployment of improved remailer
>software and more secure remailer protocols is not nearly as improbable
>as it is simply distressing.

No surprise there, either.  Mixmaster is much more secure, which would
explain why people don't want it developed.  FA insinsts on ignoring the
expertise of not only other remops but of people on the cypherpunks list
and elsewhere, who all agree that type I is not secure against serious
attacks.  I mean, let's face it: how many conferences does Len get asked
to speak at?  How many times have you seen FA on the list of speakers?

Whether this is done from ego (ie he can't code C and so can't claim to
be a large part of mixmaster development) or from darker motives, who
can say?  But then, who cares?

So can pingers please just remove him from their lists?  Let him go
private or whatever the hell he's talking about and be done with it.

Oh, and speaking of partitioning attacks: does anyone out there really
think it's a good idea to have a "private" remailer, where you
distribute the key?  Knowing who has the keys is a nice way to limit
your list of suspects, isn't it?  There's no privacy in that at all.

He's flooding newsgroups, flooding the mailboxes of any who want to
disagree with him, he has no problem monitoring and filtering mail but
cries when someone asks him to be honest about it, he "outs" users, he
lists the email of enemies in the abuse address of remailer messages...
At what point will people just delist him?

In my opinion the integrity of the remailer network is the issue.  So,
ladies and gentlemen remops: What say ye?

Kat