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[FYI] (Fwd) Canada outlaws anonymous remailers




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Date sent:      	Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:58:21 -0400
To:             	dcsb@ai.mit.edu, Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
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From:           	"R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject:        	Canada outlaws anonymous remailers (was Re: GigaLaw.com Daily
	News, September 15, 2000)

I wonder what this does to Zero Knowledge Systems?

Cheers,
RAH



At 3:52 AM -0700 on 9/15/00, GigaLaw.com wrote:


> Canadian Ruling Could Unmask Anonymous E-mailers
>      Canadian e-mailers can no longer hide behind a cloak of
>      anonymity if
> reasonable grounds exist to show they've distributed defamatory
> statements over the Internet. The change in Canadian law came after
> a landmark court ruling this week when an Ontario Superior Court
> Justice ordered Internet service provider iPRIMUS Inc. of Toronto to
> reveal the identity of an anonymous e-mailer.
>      Read the article: Wired News @
> http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38734,00.html

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