# ****Lessons from the Stasi

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Posted by Rick [Rick] on November 10, 1999 at 09:48:32 {AAJB0ph6mY7mY4XD8K2cFMFBt36Xyc}:

In Reply to: ***Lessons from the Stasi posted by Kent on November 10, 1999 at 07:20:21:

You and Bibleman have posted a lot of interesting material on how "Big Brother" can exploit the internet for their own devices.

One thing that struck me you said, Kent,

> And the fact that the Watchtower uses the Mormons to run their internet stuff is not by chanse. The Mormon guys worked at CIA, and they changed the rules, because about half of the people involved in top-secret network security
and computer technology were Mormons. After a few years, they were allowed to start up their own companies - with far more knowledge than lots of their competitors.

I wanted to add that before H2O even started, some of the brothers were skeptical it was possible to operate anonymously on the Internet. They decided to perform a test. Using perfectly legal methods accessible to all they attempted to gather as much information about www.watchtower.org possible. They discovered that not only are the brothers running www.watchtower.org are hiding behind an impenetrable "iron curtain" that maintains complete anonymity of those running the Watchtower Society's web site -- but that that "iron curtain" is a corporation run in large part by Mormons that is located smack dab in the middle of Utah.

Indeed the Mormons are the best when it comes to security and anonymity, and the Society is enjoying the fruits of the technology of anonymity. This has got me humming the famous James Bond 007 song, that goes "Nobody does it better, makes me feel sorry for the rest, nobody does it better, baby, you're the best...") ;-)

Rick

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