Paranoia Anonymous Remailer
An anonymous remailer is essentially a service to hide one's identity when sending messages by e-mail.Why should you want to hide your identity?
Because the Internet looks increasingly like a big square full of CCTVs where it is impossible to move without being monitored.
Despite the big hype about privacy and the right to privacy, we think that this is just a camouflage to disguise the fact that in the Web political liberties are decreasing, and institutions are pushing towards this so that privacy does not belong to individuals anymore and becomes a privilege bestowed by the powerful within well-defined limits, in order to ensure a "fair" control over every citizen and her activities.
No matter how loud people can bark about control of information being necessary in order to keep order, though, we believe that this control is not only unnecessary and useless in this sense, but that freedom of communication (because it only comes down to this) is every induvidual's fundamental right, and that restraining it is a way to forbid any critical voice and any moral or ideological dissent.
That's why we want to offer this tool -- in order to claim the need/right to anonymity, in order to oppose the odious attitude according to which if you're trying to hide it means that you have something to hide, in order to favour the spreading of "secure" anonymity systems, because we don't want to have "anonymous" mailboxes with Hotmail, because those mailboxes have nothing anonymous, and even if you register with false data it can always be traced back to your real identity.
For a world net of anonymous remailers exists already, and the only secure way of using these tools is by using them in a chain, so it is crucial to have as many rings possible in every single chain, because the more people use these tools, the more difficult it is to shut them down.
What follows is the fundamental data you need to use our remailer: if you wish to know how to use it, read our HOWTO.
We have a type II mixmaster remailer, which accepts messages in bot cypherpunk (type I) and mixmaster (type II) format.
If you use the cypherpunk format, remember that this remailer only accepts messages encrypted with its public key.
If you wish to receive the remailer keys, send a message to
mixmaster@remailer.paranoici.org
with the subject "remailer-key".
If you wish to see the usage stats, send a message to
mixmaster@remailer.paranoici.org
with the subject "remailer-stats"
If you don't want to receive messages from this remailer, send a message to
mixmaster@remailer.paranoici.org
entering in the subject: DESTINATION-BLOCK
Always check the remailer stats to know what remailers are active: to do this, go to: http://www.noreply.org/allpingers/
The stats of our remailer can be checked here: http://remailer.paranoici.org/stats
If you want to contact our remailer managers, write to: remailer-admin@remailer.paranoici.org
The best clients to use remailers with Windows (95/98/ME/NT/2000) are Jack B. Nymble and Quicksilver, which you can download from: http://crypto.ecn.org . From this URL you can also download more software for protecting your privacy.
The best client for *nix is the remailer itself, which you should compile so that it serves as a client rather than as a remailer: you can eqally download it from the above mentioned URL. If you use the mixmaster client, it is also very useful to use this script: http://ixazon.dynip.com/~cmeclax/getmix.html, which you can launch everyday if you wish to download uploaded keys and stats from the various remailers.