[..]
: Within the context of concrete preliminary criminal proceedings by the
: German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) ? not against
: the ICPP, as wrongly reported ?, the ICPP received a judicial
: instruction by the Local Court (Amtsgericht) Frankfurt / Main,
: Germany, by which the collaborators of the research project AN.ON were
: bound to record all access to a particular IP address (which was
: probably connected with the release of criminal contents) and to
: provide information on the stored data.


Well at least JAP has come clean. In Holland a blackmailer has
been arrested who used http://www.surfola.com/ to surf anonymous.

Unfortunately for him, Surfola gave out his address to the FBI
*without a court order* so their claim "SURFOLA.com will not give out
your name, residence address, or e-mail address to any third parties
without your permission, for any reason, at any time, ever." is
false.

A nice feature of the blackmailer was that he used stego to get a
copy of the magnetic-strip (on a bankcard) so he could withdraw money
from ATM's worldwide. He made one mistake, he requested the picture
be posted on a carsale site, he was than tracked (to surfola) by
getting the logfile and see who downloaded the picture. Surfola
gave the address so he could be put under surveillance.

Guess he never heard off usenet, remailers and mail2news gateways.

for those able to read dutch:
http://www.netkwesties.nl/editie67/artikel1.php
http://www.surfola.com/
http://www.politie.nl/utrecht/nieuws...ersbericht.asp

Cheers,
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