IP: : U.S. Wants Less Web Anonymity from TELECOM Digest V20 #6

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 00:04:41 -0500
> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
> Subject: U.S. Wants Less Web Anonymity
>
>
> by Declan McCullagh
> 3:00 a.m. 1.Mar.2000 PST
>
> WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government may need sweeping new powers to
> investigate and prosecute future denial-of-service attacks, top law
> enforcement officials said Tuesday.
>
> Anonymous remailers and free trial accounts allow hackers and online
> pornographers to cloak their identity, deputy attorney general Eric
> Holder told a joint congressional panel.
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34659,00.html