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Via The Globe and Mail.

[snip]

Welcome to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia – pivotal battleground in the global
jihad.

The town of 7,000 doesn't look the part. Its quietly beautiful downtown
lives and dies by tourists. The coastline puts postcards to shame. The New
York Islanders have held their training camp here for the past two years.
But unwittingly, Yarmouth has become an example of the sort of unassuming
places that are serving as relay stations in a virtual war.

The town is home to a branch of Register.com, one of its largest employers
and one of the most popular Internet domain-name registration services in
the world. For a fee, the company allows users to register website names
– the .com, .net or .org addresses you type into your web browser to surf
the Internet.

But for a few extra dollars, Register.com also offers an anonymous
registration service: Try to find out who registered any one of these
websites, and you'll be handed the same address and phone number in
Yarmouth.

This service is hugely popular: Civil-liberties advocates and anyone else
who values their privacy flock to it. But it's also very useful to another
group of people, halfway around the globe: On one of the world's largest
pro-Hamas websites, viewers can download martyrdom videos that feature the
diatribes of masked men shortly before they launch deadly attacks. Look up
the registration info for that site, and you'll get that Yarmouth address
and phone number.

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More:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070818.wyarmouthPOINT1
8/BNStory/Technology/

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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