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Originally Posted by dogblower
Anyone tried JAP? Seems to work fine for me, but slow, as it is allegedly routed through several servers.
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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. We know this
because the JAP operators immediately warned users that their IP
traffic might be going straight to Big Brother, right? Wrong. 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.
http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/lis.../msg00930.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/08...ce_backdoored/