IP: : U.S. Wants Less Web Anonymity from TELECOM Digest V20 #6

From: eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 18:11:14 MST


(((Good timing, Freenet folks. The thumbscrews are about to be tightened)))

From: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>

Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 00:04:41 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: U.S. Wants Less Web Anonymity

by Declan McCullagh
3:00 a.m. 1.Mar.2000 PST

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government may need sweeping new powers to
investigate and prosecute future denial-of-service attacks, top law
enforcement officials said Tuesday.

Anonymous remailers and free trial accounts allow hackers and online
pornographers to cloak their identity, deputy attorney general Eric
Holder told a joint congressional panel.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34659,00.html



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