Net anonymity service back-doored

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:43:21 -0400
> From: Claudio Gutiérrez <gutierrezclaudio () terra cl>
> Subject: Net anonymity service back-doored
> To: dave () farber net, declan () well com
>
>
> The popular Java Anonymous Proxy (JAP), used to anonymise one's comings and
> goings across the Internet, has been back-doored by court order. The 
> service is
> currently logging access attempts to a particular, and unnamed, Web site and
> reporting the IP addys of those who attempt to contact it to the German 
> police.
>
> After taking the service down for a few days with the explanation that the
> interruption was "due to a hardware failure", the operators then required 
> users
> to install an "upgraded version" (ie. a back-doored version) of the app to
> continue using the service.  "As soon as our service works again, an 
> obligatory
> update (version 00.02.001) [will be] needed by all users," the public was 
> told.
> Not a word about Feds or back doors.
>
> Fortunately, a nosey troublemaker had a look at the 'upgrade' and noticed some
> unusual business in it, and posted it to alt.2600.
>
> Soon the JAP team replied to the thread, admitting that there is now a "crime
> detection function" in the system mandated by the courts. But they defended
> their decision:
>
> <snip>
>
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/32450.html

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