It looks like the remailer network is going to come under scrutiny from the British government. There is a story breaking on BBC TV news at the moment (24Nov1994, 1300hr) about a hacker who has obtained the ex-directory numbers of various dignitaries, including the Prime Minister and royal family, from the British Telecom Customer Service System computer network. It appears that the hacker sent pages of secret numbers to a reporter on the Independent newspaper via the Internet. The story did not mention 'anonymous remailer' by name, but I presume that a remailer was used. The story also did not mention that the numbers could have been printed out on a second hand, untraceable, dot-matrix printer and sent via anonymous postal mail. How did the hacker obtain the top-secret numbers ? Simply by working as a temporary employee for BT, and reading the top-secret CSS passwords conveniently written on Post-it notes next to the terminals. It has not been a good week for BT. On the Monday BBC TV Watchdog program, they were slammed for invading privacy via the newly introduced CLID system.