Re: Americans e-mailing thru terrorist countries

[Charlie Comsec <comsec@redneck.efga.org>]

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Alex de Joode <usura@basement.replay.com> wrote:

> :>Bad idea.  US monitors all cross-border traffic, legally. If you
> :>keep it in the US, no legal basis for monitoring.
> 
> : Don't be so naive. No matter political system, political orientation,
> : race, religion, West or East, Big Brother is protecting himself,
> : always and everywhere. There are lots of social problems out there
> : in U.S.
> 
> Internal US monitoring is done by UK GCHQ staff at Frt. Meade.

And ... let me guess ... the Puzzle Palace returns the favor for the
Brits, right?  Or are they not prohibited from doing their own
domestic spying like the US intelligence establishment is?  Another
theory I'd heard is that the NSA was engaged in domestic spying from
Indian reservations, since they're supposedly considered "sovreign
nations" under US law, and thus conduction operations from there is
not "US soil".

That's one of the reasons why I suggested a DOMESTIC remailer for
the first hop in the chain (preferably a Mixmaster Type II chain).
Even if the Brits are doing the NSA's dirty work for them, there is
still value in taking some minimal advantage of the legal
protections of US law.  For example, even if British intellignece
were to intercept your traffic, the US government would probably
think twice about actually USING that info against you, if doing so
could compromise the secrecy of their intelligence-sharing
arrangement.

Of course, I didn't mean to suggest that ANYTHING is 100% foolproof.
But why not use as many potential safeguards as possible ... just in
case.

BTW, just to clarify something, I wasn't suggesting that Sadaam
Hussein or another dictator would be particularly pro-remailer.  In
fact, I'd fully expect that any remailer allowed to operate in such
a "rogue" nation would probably be blocked from accepting mail from
within that country.  But it sure is a way an international paraiah
could thumb his nose at the US for a minimal investment.

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