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Need to send email anonymously? Anonymous remailers provide a solution. Here's an review of how they work and where to gain access to them.
You can gain some privacy in email by by using a provider that doesn't track you. Although that's different from covering your identity from the recipient.
Anonymous remailers make it possible to obfuscate your identity when mailing email. They work likewise to Tor in that they route your email through multiple nodes. That way, the e-mail person can't trace the concept back to its source.
If that sounds similar to what sites like Craigslist do when you send email to unknown people, that's because they use anonymous remailers so users can communicate without exposing their true identities.
Additional anonymous remailers are designed to offer broader personal privacy protection. They provide a way to anonymize any email, not merely ones from a particular site like Craigslist does.
There are three main types of anonymous remailers: cypherpunk, mixmailer and mixminion. They change in the details of their design, but on the whole they feature the same features. Most remailer services support multiple types of remailers; as long as you familiarize yourself with the needs of the service you want to use, you should be capable of cover your identity effectively.
Confidential Remailer Limitations
The primary disadvantage of most anonymous remailers is that, because the recipient doesn't know the sender's identity, communication is one-way. Quite simply, you won't be able to reply to messages sent through an anonymous remailer.
You will find exceptions. Certain remailers, known as nym machines, keep records of the nodes through which an email passes since it is anonymized. The remailers may then work backwards to allow the recipient to reply with the same channel.
However, this approach requires the remailer in order to keep a set in place of senders and receivers. Anyone who has gain access to such a list -- which government regulators could demand using censorship laws -- can identify the email users. That is why, you shouldn't use nym servers for remailing if you need to ensure that no-one can trace your text messages back to their source.
Remailers have been with us for more than a ten years and a lot of the original services no longer work. Yet a few are still running, including the following:
You can gain some privacy in email by by using a provider that doesn't track you. Although that's different from covering your identity from the recipient.
Anonymous remailers make it possible to obfuscate your identity when mailing email. They work likewise to Tor in that they route your email through multiple nodes. That way, the e-mail person can't trace the concept back to its source.
If that sounds similar to what sites like Craigslist do when you send email to unknown people, that's because they use anonymous remailers so users can communicate without exposing their true identities.
Additional anonymous remailers are designed to offer broader personal privacy protection. They provide a way to anonymize any email, not merely ones from a particular site like Craigslist does.
There are three main types of anonymous remailers: cypherpunk, mixmailer and mixminion. They change in the details of their design, but on the whole they feature the same features. Most remailer services support multiple types of remailers; as long as you familiarize yourself with the needs of the service you want to use, you should be capable of cover your identity effectively.
Confidential Remailer Limitations
The primary disadvantage of most anonymous remailers is that, because the recipient doesn't know the sender's identity, communication is one-way. Quite simply, you won't be able to reply to messages sent through an anonymous remailer.
You will find exceptions. Certain remailers, known as nym machines, keep records of the nodes through which an email passes since it is anonymized. The remailers may then work backwards to allow the recipient to reply with the same channel.
However, this approach requires the remailer in order to keep a set in place of senders and receivers. Anyone who has gain access to such a list -- which government regulators could demand using censorship laws -- can identify the email users. That is why, you shouldn't use nym servers for remailing if you need to ensure that no-one can trace your text messages back to their source.
Remailers have been with us for more than a ten years and a lot of the original services no longer work. Yet a few are still running, including the following:
