From: wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (Mutatis Mutantdis)
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 95 22:16:16 PST
Subject: Re: [Mix-L] WARNING: sting via remailer! (fwd)
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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