[Mix-L] WARNING: sting via remailer! (fwd)

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> 	I was in the federal building coffee shop in Reston, Va. yesterday
> when I overheard a conversation between what appeared to be two FBI agents
> discussing a sting operation involving Mixmaster. Hearing the word
> "mixmaster" naturally caused my ears to perk up and I listened further. 
> 
> 	It appears that the FBI has coerced a mixmaster remailer operator
> into cooperating with them in a sting operation to catch remailers when
> they forward email pertaining to pornography, pedophilia, and copy-written
> software. 
> 
> 	My questions are a) is it possible to perform this type of
> monitoring on a mixmaster remailer and, b) what is the identity of the
> cooperating remailer operator? 
> 
> 	This concerns me greatly as I use remailers to privatize my
> important email regularly and I don't want my identity or my email
> compromised because of a "spook in cypherpunks clothing".
> 


-- 
Bryan Strawser, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA              Remember Waco
bstrawse@indiana.edu                    http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~bstrawse

Bryan Strawser <bstrawse@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:

>Forwarded message:
[..]
>> 	I was in the federal building coffee shop in Reston, Va. yesterday
>> when I overheard a conversation between what appeared to be two FBI agents
>> discussing a sting operation involving Mixmaster. Hearing the word
>> "mixmaster" naturally caused my ears to perk up and I listened further. 
>> 
>> 	It appears that the FBI has coerced a mixmaster remailer operator
>> into cooperating with them in a sting operation to catch remailers when
>> they forward email pertaining to pornography, pedophilia, and copy-written
>> software. 

Not that such a thing is impossible, but it seems awfully suspicious
that FBI agents would be talking about a case within earshot of the
general public...
 
--Mutant Rob

On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Mutatis Mutantdis wrote:

> Bryan Strawser <bstrawse@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> 
> >Forwarded message:
> [..]
> >> 	I was in the federal building coffee shop in Reston, Va. yesterday
> >> when I overheard a conversation between what appeared to be two FBI agents
> >> discussing a sting operation involving Mixmaster. Hearing the word
> >> "mixmaster" naturally caused my ears to perk up and I listened further. 
> >> 
> >> 	It appears that the FBI has coerced a mixmaster remailer operator
> >> into cooperating with them in a sting operation to catch remailers when
> >> they forward email pertaining to pornography, pedophilia, and copy-written
> >> software. 
> 
> Not that such a thing is impossible, but it seems awfully suspicious
> that FBI agents would be talking about a case within earshot of the
> general public...


I think you are giving the agents too much credit if you believe that 
they never discuss investigations while having coffee in the Federal 
Building -- or even while having lunch at McDonald's.

While sitting in close proximity to other tables, I've had to shush 
agents who were speaking loudly about a case or investigation...

EBD

>  
> --Mutant Rob
> 
> 
> 

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