Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org> writes:
I believe this to be a forgery of course, but it might be of interest anyway.
I am a pro-privacy political sabatour within the NSA. I am warning all new users of anonymous mailers about NSA traffic watching. We listen to all messages passing through certain intermediate nodes and compare them with messsages leaving anonymous services. We are able to trace 70% of all messages.
This doesn't seem too unreasonable even if the writer only imagines he is working for the NSA. The Anonymous Posting Service at Penet is vulnerable to a number of tricks which might be used to disclose the identity of posters. I have always regarded it as a handy tool for people wishing to maintain a small degree of privacy while posting on sensitive or embarrassing topics. I certainly wouldn't use it to threaten the President or trade plutonium futures. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd@netcom.com $ via Finger. $