I hope at this point the retractions by the Register have been well circulated. Just to make it absolutely clear, we have never and never will sell out a customer. This is simply shoddy reporting at its worst. A blog first reported this months ago as "an anonymizer" which was then picked up as "The Anonymizer" in some articles, which then printed corrections. In fact the company involved was Surfola which is not connected to us in any way shape or form (and which I had never even heard of before this). Months later the Register picked up on an old uncorrected version of the story and printed it without any fact checking at all. This is a shocking breach of editorial responsibility. I would have hoped that my years of working on free open source privacy tools (such as Mixmaster) before founding Anonymizer would lend my reputation some weight, or at least give me the benefit of the doubt until the matter was clarified. I am deeply troubled to see death threats against my employees (and I would assume myself) without anyone taking the trouble to even ask us to comment. It has always been easy to contact me directly, next time I hope someone will do so before assuming the worst. -Lance ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- Lance M. Cottrell President, Anonymizer Inc.