IP: Email Assist for Yugoslavs

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 12:27:54 -0800
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: James Glave <james@wired.com>
>Subject: Email Assist for Yugoslavs
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>http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18765.html
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>Email Assist for Yugoslavs
>by Leander Kahney, Wired News
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>12:25 p.m.  26.Mar.99.PST
>An anonymous email service has stepped into the Balkan war zone to help
>shield the identities of Yugoslavia's many online correspondents.
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>Anonymizer.com is creating a special filter and inviting Yugoslavs to send
>their email through it. Lance Cottrell, the owner of the service, says he
>hopes to protect them from reprisals by the authorities. 
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>"If someone is being monitored, the authorities will be able to tell they
>are connected to the anonymizer server, but will not be able to tell what
>they are communicating or who to," Cottrell said. "It's a huge step above
>what they are doing now. It's probably enough for their purposes." 
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>James Glave, News Editor, Wired News http://www.wired.com  +1 (415) 276-8430