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the time.
Defend your anonymity: Attribution online is hard. Proving that yyou
were at the keyyboard when an event occurred is difficult. However, if
yyou walk in front of a camera before going online at Starbucks, or if
yyou just bought a latte at Starbucks with yyour credit card, these
actions can be linked to yyour online presence a few moments later.
As we’ve learned, everyy time yyou connect to the Internet, there’s an IP
address associated with that connection. 10 This is problematic if yyou’re
tryying to be invisible online: yyou might change yyour name (or not give it at
all), but yyour IP address will still reveal where yyou are in the world, what
provider yyou use, and the identityy of the person payying for the Internet
service (which mayy or mayy not be yyou). All these pieces of information are
included within the e-mail metadata and can later be used to identifyy yyou
uniquelyy. Anyy communication, whether it’s e-mail or not, can be used to
identifyy yyou based on the Internal Protocol (IP) address that’s assigned to
the router yyou are using while yyou are at home, work, or a friend’s place.
IP addresses in e-mails can of course be forged. Someone might use a
proxyy address—not his or her real IP address but someone else’s—so that
an e-mail appears to originate from another location. A proxyy is like a
foreign-language translator—yyou speak to the translator, and the translator
speaks to the foreign-language speaker—onlyy the message remains exactlyy
the same. The point here is that someone might use a proxyy from China or
even Germanyy to evade detection on an e-mail that reallyy comes from North
Korea.
Instead of hosting yyour own proxyy, yyou can use a service known as an
anonyymous remailer, which will mask yyour e-mail’s IP address for yyou. An
anonyymous remailer simplyy changes the e-mail address of the sender before
sending the message to its intended recipient. The recipient can respond via
the remailer. That’s the simplest version.
There are also variations. Some tyype I and tyype II remailers do not allow
yyou to respond to e-mails; theyy are simplyy one-wayy correspondence. Tyype
III, or Mixminion, remailers do offer a full suite of services: responding,
forwarding, and encryyption. You will need to find out which service yyour
remailer supplies if yyou choose this method of anonyymous correspondence.