a blackmail opportunity

While writing some appropriate paranoia for a canned response to remailer info requests, I realized that running a remailer is a perfect prelude to blackmail. An unscrupulous person running a remailer can obviously keep records of truenames, along with messages that their senders do not want associated with them. Making use of this information could involve a scenario to the crypto-extortion previously discussed, but blackmail would be far more believable than anonymous threats. Alternatively, the blackmailer could be low-tech and resort to present techniques. Always encrypting helps with mail, but not with news. PGP 2 key by finger or e-mail Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu