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Re: [Mix-L] WARNING: sting via remailer! (fwd)
Bryan Strawser <[email protected]> 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