From: geeman@best.com
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 12:08:13 +0800
To: Robert Hettinga <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: IP: [Fwd: new threat to privacy]
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980912094344.006ba0ec@shell15.ba.best.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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ummm ... not to sound skeptical, but were did -this- thing come from?
looks like a crock to me.  here, guys: have at it, here's my email address.

ps: can you spell "agent provocateur" ---- (I'm not sure *I* can...)


At 11:43 AM 9/12/98 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:
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>X-TCP-IDENTITY: Bucsplace
>Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:30:29 -0400
>From: oldbat <bucsplace@cchat.com>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>To: IP <ignition-point@majordomo.pobox.com>
>Subject: IP: [Fwd: new threat to privacy]
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>From: "Bill Prince" <webprince@SPAMmindspring.com>
>Newsgroups: misc.survivalism
>Subject: new threat to privacy
>Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:14:54 -0400
>Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
>Message-ID: <6t9bu9$spm$1@camel15.mindspring.com>
>NNTP-Posting-Host: user-37kbbqr.dialup.mindspring.com
>X-Server-Date: 10 Sep 1998 20:14:01 GMT
>X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0518.4
>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0518.4
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>nplanet.com!firehose.mindspring.com!not-for-mail
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>There is another powerful tool for surreptitiously intercepting
>data, but it is only available to law enforcement and the
>military. Called DIRT (Data Interception and Remote
>Transmission), it was released in June by Codex Data Systems.
>http://www.thecodex.com/dirt.html
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>Investigators need only know your e-mail address to secretly
>install the program. Once they do, investigators can read your
>documents, view your images, download your files and intercept
>your encryption keys. DIRT was developed to assist law
>enforcement in pedophilia investigations, but future uses could
>include drug investigations, money laundering cases and
>information warfare.
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>- -
>Bill Prince | Orlando, Florida |
>Linuxori te salutamus!
>Take out the SPAM to email me!
>- -
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>Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
>Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
>44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
>"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
>[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
>experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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