[Mix-L] WARNING: sting via remailer! (fwd)
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From owner-mix-l@alpha.jpunix.com Tue Dec 5 09:03:10 1995 Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 07:55:21 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199512051355.HAA12202@alpha.jpunix.com> To: mix-l@vishnu.alias.net, remailer-operators@c2.org, mail2news@utopia.hacktic.nl Newsgroups: alt.privacy, alt.privacy.anon-server, alt.security From: "Mr. Boffo" <mixmaster@vishnu.alias.net> X-Comment1: This message did not originate from the X-Comment2: above address. It was automatically remailed X-Comment3: by an anonymous mail service. Please report X-Comment4: problems or inappropriate use to X-Comment5: <complaints@vishnu.alias.net> Subject: [Mix-L] WARNING: sting via remailer! Sender: owner-mix-l@jpunix.com Precedence: bulk
I was in the federal building coffee shop in Reston, Va. yesterday when I overheard a conversation between what appeared to be two FBI agents discussing a sting operation involving Mixmaster. Hearing the word "mixmaster" naturally caused my ears to perk up and I listened further.
It appears that the FBI has coerced a mixmaster remailer operator into cooperating with them in a sting operation to catch remailers when they forward email pertaining to pornography, pedophilia, and copy-written software.
My questions are a) is it possible to perform this type of monitoring on a mixmaster remailer and, b) what is the identity of the cooperating remailer operator?
This concerns me greatly as I use remailers to privatize my important email regularly and I don't want my identity or my email compromised because of a "spook in cypherpunks clothing".
-- Bryan Strawser, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Remember Waco bstrawse@indiana.edu http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~bstrawse
Bryan Strawser <bstrawse@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
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I was in the federal building coffee shop in Reston, Va. yesterday when I overheard a conversation between what appeared to be two FBI agents discussing a sting operation involving Mixmaster. Hearing the word "mixmaster" naturally caused my ears to perk up and I listened further.
It appears that the FBI has coerced a mixmaster remailer operator into cooperating with them in a sting operation to catch remailers when they forward email pertaining to pornography, pedophilia, and copy-written software.
Not that such a thing is impossible, but it seems awfully suspicious that FBI agents would be talking about a case within earshot of the general public... --Mutant Rob
On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Mutatis Mutantdis wrote:
Bryan Strawser <bstrawse@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
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I was in the federal building coffee shop in Reston, Va. yesterday when I overheard a conversation between what appeared to be two FBI agents discussing a sting operation involving Mixmaster. Hearing the word "mixmaster" naturally caused my ears to perk up and I listened further.
It appears that the FBI has coerced a mixmaster remailer operator into cooperating with them in a sting operation to catch remailers when they forward email pertaining to pornography, pedophilia, and copy-written software.
Not that such a thing is impossible, but it seems awfully suspicious that FBI agents would be talking about a case within earshot of the general public...
I think you are giving the agents too much credit if you believe that they never discuss investigations while having coffee in the Federal Building -- or even while having lunch at McDonald's. While sitting in close proximity to other tables, I've had to shush agents who were speaking loudly about a case or investigation... EBD
--Mutant Rob
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