From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 20:49:46 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RSADSI vs Remailers?
Message-ID: <199409170349.UAA09576@jobe.shell.portal.com>
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> Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp,sci.crypt,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.org.cpsr.talk,alt.security.ripem
> From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
> Subject: RSADSI Warning
> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 23:27:18 GMT
> 
> The notice below is being posted by request of Jim Bidzos, President of
> RSADSI and PKP. I have no business connection with RSADSI except as a
> licensee of RSAREF.                 
> 
>                             WARNING NOTICE
> 
>     It has come to RSA Data Security's attention that certain RSA
> trade secrets, in the form of confidential and proprietary source
> code, have been misappropriated and disclosed.  Please be advised that
> these acts, as well as any retransmission or use of this
> misappropriated source code is a violation of the Uniform Trade
> Secrets Act and various other state and federal laws.  Any person or
> entity that acquires, discloses or uses this information is subject to
> criminal and civil penalties including an injunction, compensatory
> damages, punitive damages and payment of RSA's attorneys fees.
> 
>     RSA considers this misappropriation to be most serious.  Not only
> is this act a violation of law, but its publication is a gross abuse
> of the Internet.  RSA has begun an investigation and will proceed with
> legal action against anyone found to have violated its intellectual
> property rights.



Note the original post header.  It came via the jpunix remailer.

> From inbox/cpx Fri Sep  9 20:41:47 1994
> From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com  Fri Sep  9 20:17:32 1994
> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 22:11:49 -0500
> Message-Id: <199409100311.WAA12423@jpunix.com>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> From: nobody@jpunix.com
> Subject: Thank you Bob Anderson
> Remailed-By: remailer@jpunix.com
> Complaints-To: postmaster@jpunix.com
> Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
> Precedence: bulk



I wonder if there is any connection to this:

> From owner-remailer-operators@c2.org
> From: "John A. Perry" <perry@jpunix.com>
> Subject: getting in trouble..
> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 14:56:51 -0459 (CDT)
> Sender: owner-remailer-operators@c2.org
> 
> 
> Well it's happened,
> 
> Someone out in net land felt it was necessary to call my place of 
> employment and complain that the remailer was being used to send 
> copy-written software as well as encrypted software out of the country. 
> Needless to say, my employers didn't take kindly to this. The remailer at 
> jpunix is temporarily shutdown for a few days until this blows over and I 
> can find out exactly what the legal implications are. I'll keep everyone 
> updated.
> 
> John