[117940] in Cypherpunks
anon.penet.fi shutdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Thu Sep 16 09:42:58 1999
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:19:24 +0000
From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
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Anonymous wrote (without a subject line, darn it):
> Anonymous wrote:
>> Anon.penet.fi was shut down by its operator after harassment by the
>> Co$. Scientology succeeded in obtaining the identity of one
>> nymholder, after originally trying to subpoena the entire database.
>
> co$ didn't get any identity. it got the email address - of another
> nym at c2.net. (Two of them actually.)
I remember it differently: I thought the Co$ got the actual email
address of a real person at Caltech. Am I thinking of a different
anonymity breach?
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Jim Gillogly
25 Halimath S.R. 1999, 13:17
12.19.6.9.13, 6 Ben 1 Chen, Fourth Lord of Night
