Posted by a.j.w. [aw] on March 31, 1999 at 18:12:09 {ohFII14TUcAQYl.7u8UQ9b2GZPq.rk}:
Interesting how the plebs of despotic regimes need to use the Anonymizer ...
another funny point: "s l o b" in "Slo*badan" was censored out by H2O ;-)
Anonymous e-mail service aids Kosovo
By Maria Seminerio
March 31, 1999
ZDNN
Anonymous e-mail service Anonymizer.com is urging citizens in Kosovo to use its system to deliver reports from the front lines without fear of reprisals from Serbian authorities.
The company's Kosovo Privacy Project, launched this week, aims to keep information flowing out of the war-scarred region via the Internet while protecting the identities of informants, said Lance Cottrell, chief executive officer of Anonymizer.com.
"If someone is being monitored, the authorities will be able to tell they are connected to the Anonymizer server, but will not be able to determine what they are communicating or to whom," Cottrell said.
The company is providing a special encrypted gateway through which people in Kosovo can send e-mail anonymously. The free Web-based service requires no software download. It is similar to the three-year-old company's existing Anonymizer E-mail, Anonymizer Surfing and Anonymizer Publishing services, company officials said.
The project is also being promoted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
"I am seeing messages traveling and being posted on Web pages that are just as easy for me to read as they are for (Yugoslav President Slo*bodan) Milosevic and his agents to see," said Alex Fowler, public affairs director at EFF. Fowler was credited by Anonymizer.com officials with conceiving the project.
Staying anonymous is literally a life or death issue in the Yugoslav war zone, said Patrick Ball, deputy director of the AAAS' Science and Human Rights Program. "The actions taken by the Yugoslav government and Serbian military show why people who are reporting human rights violations need to be protected from exposure," Ball said. "If they aren't protected by these technologies, they will be killed."
Meanwhile, NATO officials said Wednesday that pro-Serbian computer hackers are attacking the NATO Web site, the Associated Press reported.
"Our e-mail system has been saturated by one individual who is currently sending us 2,000 e-mails a day, and we are dealing with macro viruses from Yugoslavia into our e-mail system," NATO spokesman Jamie Shea told the news service.
See Also:
Kosovo: The wired war
Web keeps Kosovo war broadcast alive
Internet covers Kosovo
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