[Wolves] Totally anonymous email

Baza baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Tue Jul 19 17:02:19 BST 2005


On 19 Jul 2005, at 16:41, Wayne Morris wrote:

> Stuart Langridge wrote:
>
>
>>> To clarify, the service must not:
>>>
>>> - be traceable
>>> in any way
>>> - ask for a real name etc during registration
>>> - log the IP address
>>> of the machine used to access it.
>>>
>>> However, it must be able to send and
>>> receive email as normal.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What would be the motive for someone to set up such a service? They'd
>> just be used for spam, no?
>>
>> Aq.
>>
>>
>>
> If it was limited to one email recipient per mail and some sort of  
> restriction to prevent automated repetitive postings then it would  
> not be useful for spam.
> As to a legitmate use for such a service, then
> 1) Whistleblowing - say discussing crime on a forum, where you  
> might feel be targetted by the criminals - ie reporting wrongdoing  
> by police etc, or reporting dole fraud etc.
> 2) err can't think of any others....
>
>


There is nothing wrong with wanting to protect your privacy, there  
might be many times where you feel you need to contact a person or  
organisation without their being able to easily trace where it came  
from.

OK, you could set up a throw away hotmail account and use it from a  
public terminal.

Baza
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