Twenty-two percent of the companies don't tell their employees they are doing so. Some scan emails and Web sites for keywords, some pick messages at random, others look for words in email subject lines, and some just read entire emails. Publius relies on distributing documents across numerous servers in such a way that even the server owners don't know what documents they host. There's a lot of high-level crypto math here, but in essence a Perl program of a mere 1,500 lines does all the hard work.
Users can read and publish documents anonymously from their own browser.
The request comes a day after the White House admitted it violated federal privacy guidelines by tracking users who searched for drug-related information online. Caught in the middle of this flap is New York-based Internet advertising giant DoubleClick, which brought tracking technology into the mainstream as a method of measuring the effectiveness of Internet ads, and is serving the banner advertisements for this campaign. They have asked DoubleClick to provide a guarantee to the public that it has destroyed all the information it held that could in future link any individual with visits to the drug-related sites. The Recording Industry Association of America filed a brief yesterday asking U.S. Judge Marilyn Hall Patel to grant an injunction preventing Napster from facilitating or assisting others in, the copying, downloading, uploading, transmission or distribution of copyrighted musical works. Napster is named as a breeding ground for widespread copyright infringement, and such an order would shut down Napster.