OFF:Scientology tentacles

[M Holmes]

Christian000Mumford writes:

> > The scientologists (allegedly using members highly placed in the
> > country) managed to organise a Police raid after which they gained
> > access to the files. The person who had provided the penet.fi server
> > through much voluntary effort, found this the last straw (after sundry
> > accusations and Court cases about porn and child porn - he didn't allow
> > binaries to be posted) and closed down the server.
>
> What I find freaky here is, now that you mention the bit about the porn,
> it's the only reason I remember from the news report(s) at the time (1994?)
> as why they went after the anon. server guy. I don't remember any mention
> of the Scientologists... Guess that campaign worked huh??

There was also (Court) pressure from a foreign government (could have
been Burma) because the rebels had been sending PGP encrypted stuff out
by remailer. Also some dissidents living abroad had published critiques
of the government by anon remailer. They wanted their addresses abroad
and Jurt reckoned that lives might be in danger. In light of that, you
can see the responsibility he must have felt when the Scientologists
forced the revelation of *any* information from his database.

FoFP