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Zero Knowledge ends anonymity services on October 22



Excerpt:

http://www.freedom.net/prem.html
>"I regret to inform you that Freedom Premium Services - Anonymous Web 
>Browsing and Private Encrypted Email - will be discontinued as of October 
>22nd, 2001."

Wow.

-Declan

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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:32:50 +0200
From: Rop Gonggrijp <rop@xs4all.nl>
To: declan@well.com
Subject: Fwd: ZeroKnowledge to Discontinue Anonymity Service

Osama Bin Laden deserves the mother of all Big Brother awards.

:(

Grtz,

Rop


=================  Forwarded message  ===============
From: Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl>
To: discussion@hippiesfromhell.org
Date: Thursday, October 04, 2001, 17:45:31
Subject: ZeroKnowledge to Discontinue Anonymity Service


"ZeroKnowledge, providers of Freedom.net and Freedom privacy software,
have abruptly decided to stop providing anonymous web browsing and
private, encrypted, untraceable email for its customers. They give
users 7 days before the system is shut down and all untraceable email
addresses are disabled. They also say that your "secret" identity may
not remain a secret for long." Well, note that that last link is a
warning about using the service during the shutdown period, not a
warning that they plan to compromise nyms in general. At least they're
offering a refund.

http://www.freedom.net/support/article.html?article=410
http://www.freedom.net/prem.html

:(

Paul



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