On Monday, September 1st, 1997, a police officer from the German "Internet Patrol" in Munich contacted my provider and me by phone and informed us that he investigates a case of child pornography posted through weasel.owl.de and the nym.alias.net mail-to-news gateway on August 17th. Today my provider officially told me to close my nymserver because they fear legal hassles if more illegal material is sent from weasel during the present investigations. I've taken the following measures to comply with their request: 1. Mail to send@weasel.owl.de bounces with the error message: "Sending mail from weasel.owl.de is disabled until further notice." Remailer operators, please add send@weasel.owl.de to your destination block lists. 2. Weasel.owl.de does not allow creation of new accounts. 3. Mail to weasel.owl.de users will be remailed as usual, until I have transferred the accounts to another nymserver. I would be very grateful if the admins of nym.alias.net or anon.efga.org are willing to host weasel's nyms until the investigations are closed and weasel is hopefully up again. Last but not least: the only police contact until now was by phone; neither my provider nor I were forced to copy or decrypt anything. -- Johannes Kroeger <hanne@squirrel.owl.de> Send mail with subject "send pgp-key" to get my PGP key