From: [s--o--a] at [oak.circa.ufl.edu] Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns Subject: A Letter from within the NSA Date: 30 Jun 1994 14:26:43 GMT Hello all, I decited to try to learn how to use the anonymous server. I sent two test messages to a friend (successfully) and got back this message as well: (*******-marks something I blanked out) ***************************************************************************** From: MX%"[an 109803] at [anon.penet.fi]" To: STORA CC: Subj: Re: none Return-Path: <[d--em--n] at [anon.penet.fi]> Received: from anon.penet.fi by maple.circa.ufl.edu (MX V3.3 VAX) with SMTP; Wed, 29 Jun 1994 23:24:51 EDT Received: by anon.penet.fi (5.67/1.35) id AA15321; Thu, 30 Jun 94 05:34:54 +0300 To: [s--o--a] at [maple.circa.ufl.edu] From: [an 109803] at [anon.penet.fi] Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 02:34:49 UTC Subject: Re: none I am a pro-privacy political sabatour within the NSA. I am warning all new users of anonymous mailers about NSA traffic watching. We listen to all messages passing through certain intermediate nodes and compare them with messsages leaving anonymous services. We are able to trace 70% of all messages. I suggest that you be careful and not send any illegal material via anonymous mailers. You endanger both yourself and the recipient. The following mail was traced back to you: mx%"*********%************@anon.penet.fi" mx%"@anon.penet.fi:**********@**********" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to [h--p] at [anon.penet.fi.] Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to [a--m--n] at [anon.penet.fi.] ***************************************************************************** Interesting, huh? Mike