[Full-Disclosure] JAP back doored
This is a terrible day for privacy advocates that used the once (perhaps never true) "anonymous" Java Anonymous Proxy. According to a story ( http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/32450.html) by The Register (It was also posted to ("http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/334382/2003-08-18/2003-08-24/0) BugTraq) JAP was back doored by court order. It was a forced upgrade (after a service interruption) to monitor "one site" that continues to be unnamed. How sad it is when a group have a motto of "Anonymity is not a crime." and then hand logs to the police without a word? Clearly if they are able to defend themselves on alt.2600 (http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&frame=right&th=f4ef43 f695ca29e8&seekm=3f3d3740%241_1%40news.vic.com#link10), they aren't under a gag. Read it and weep. -- error <error@lostinthenoise.net> [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/RENAMED-99 which had a name of signature_asc.RENAMED-99]
RIP The userbase of any anonymity service stays, and dissappears, with the trust. ----- Original Message ----- From: "error" <error@lostinthenoise.net> To: <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>; <cypherpunks@lne.com> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:20 PM Subject: [Full-Disclosure] JAP back doored _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
This is a terrible day for privacy advocates that used the once (perhaps
This is the great day for *true* privacy advocates worldwide. In face of huge difficulties and dangers in providing real anonymity, some human rights/wrongs organisations capitalised (in several ways) on the need for anonymity by providing non-solutions with cosmetic appearance of anonymity. They captured the gullible public with this "service" and dealt another blow to the real anonymity. Who needs complicated mixmaster when there are cool cretin-friendly java/web/whatever solutions ? One would hope that users of other centralised "anonymity" services will learn from this, if one is incurable optimist, that is. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
This piece of political PR was sent to a mailing list intended for internal reporting of computer problems at a university, so was obviously automatically grabbed. Maybe someone sold them a list of ac.uk addresses. Dr Sean Gabb wrote:
2nd September 2003
Dear Educator,
We are writing to ask whether you would like to receive the future publications of the Libertarian Alliance by email.
The Libertarian Alliance is the UK's premier radical libertarian group.
[...snip...]
Yours sincerely, Dr. Chris R. Tame Director The Libertarian Alliance
I'd have thought Gabb & Tame (if it is them & not some spoof) were sussed enough to realise that spamming just makes you look like a prat. Ken Brown
Whoops - apologies for stupid posting here caused by /me/ being a prat with my mail program. Though the message body it isn't entirely off-topic here - the subject line is quite unrelated to it. Mea culpa. Ken ken wrote:
This piece of political PR was sent to a mailing list intended for internal reporting of computer problems at a university, so was obviously automatically grabbed. Maybe someone sold them a list of ac.uk addresses.
Dr Sean Gabb wrote:
2nd September 2003
Dear Educator,
We are writing to ask whether you would like to receive the future publications of the Libertarian Alliance by email.
The Libertarian Alliance is the UK's premier radical libertarian group.
[...snip...]
Yours sincerely, Dr. Chris R. Tame Director The Libertarian Alliance
I'd have thought Gabb & Tame (if it is them & not some spoof) were sussed enough to realise that spamming just makes you look like a prat.
Ken Brown
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