Popular Net anonymity service back-doored (fwd)

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 06:44 PM 8/21/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
>Popular Net anonymity service back-doored
>Fed-up Feds get court order
>http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/32450.html
>
>The popular Java Anonymous Proxy (JAP), used to anonymise one's comings
and
>goings across the Internet, has been back-doored by court order. The
service
>is currently logging access attempts to a particular, and unnamed, Web
site
>and reporting the IP addys of those who attempt to contact it to the
German
>police.
>

>"What was the alternative? Shutting down the service? The security
>apparatchiks would have appreciated that - anonymity in the Internet
and
>especially AN.ON are a thorn in their side anyway."

The way the Zealots dealt with Roman collaborators is becoming
increasingly attractive...


>Sorry, the Feds undoubtedly appreciated the JAP team's willingness to
>back-door the app while saying nothing about it a lot more than they
would

In the US, their claims about anonymity would be *fraudulent* and
subject
to legal action.

Perhaps some extra-German folks should use the proxy and hit a lot of
National
Socialist sites... don't want Grosser Bruder to get bored...