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...
