Someone's screwing around with anon.penet.fi
Here's another one of them unsolicited messages from anon.penet.fi. I have a feeling lots of people on the Cypherpunks list are going to be getting these... My first post to the list was only about two days ago, and someone's already messing around. :(
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 96 16:42:14 +0300 From: System Daemon <daemon@anon.penet.fi> To: steve@edmweb.com Subject: Anonymous code name allocated.
You have sent a message using the anon.penet.fi anonymous forwarding service. You have been allocated the code name an577024. You can be reached anonymously using the address an577024@anon.penet.fi.
If you want to use a nickname, please send a message to nick@anon.penet.fi, with a Subject: field containing your nickname.
For instructions, send a message to help@anon.penet.fi.
| I have a feeling lots of people on the Cypherpunks list are going to l be getting these... My first post to the list was only about two | days ago, and someone's already messing around. :( Something like that. No doubt, someone is subscribed to the cypherpunks list with an anonymous account on anon.penet.fi - of the an???? variant. When you posted to the cypherpunks list, your posting was sent to this account. Now, an???? accounts are supposed to be anonymized both ways, which means that when anon.penet.fi recieved your message, it anonymized it and assigned you an anon id. The nasty consequence is that the receiver can easily find the correspondence between your real and anon id, even if it wasn't generated just now. I thought there was some kind of mechanism on anon.penet.fi to prevent this, but it seems not. -Magnus
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