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Netly News on anon.penet.fi investigation
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1869,00.html
The Netly News
April 2, 1998
After two years, it's finally over. Finnish police have halted
their investigation of anon.penet.fi, the remailing service that once
enabled hundreds of thousands of users to send and receive
pseudonymous e-mail. Its creator, Julf Helsingius, pulled the plug on
the remailer after a Helsinki District Court ordered him to reveal two
masked e-mail addresses that were being used to distribute copyrighted
Church of Scientology scripture.
Despite the transnational legal victory, the thetan-fearing
Scientologists never got far with the exposed addresses,
veno@alpha.c2.org and helen@alpha.c2.org. They traced back to another
remailer -- this time one that was heavily encrypted. Did the
Scientologists try to ferret out those identities before C2Net retired
the service? "No one contacted us, as far as I know," says Sameer
Parekh, C2Net's president. "Alpha accounts had the potential for being
very secure, to resist the very kind of attack that shut down penet."
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