17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Bryan Strawser <bstrawse@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
Forwarded message: [..]
I was in the federal building coffee shop in Reston, Va. yesterday when I overheard a conversation between what appeared to be two FBI agents discussing a sting operation involving Mixmaster. Hearing the word "mixmaster" naturally caused my ears to perk up and I listened further.
It appears that the FBI has coerced a mixmaster remailer operator into cooperating with them in a sting operation to catch remailers when they forward email pertaining to pornography, pedophilia, and copy-written software.
Not that such a thing is impossible, but it seems awfully suspicious that FBI agents would be talking about a case within earshot of the general public... --Mutant Rob