Supposed NSA turncoat reveals monitoring of anon remailers? >pshah!<
Mike Duvos
mpd at netcom.com
Mon Jul 11 09:48:52 PDT 1994
Stanton McCandlish <mech at 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.
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