Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica web site trouble
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 08:18:43 -0700

> It also shows that the authorities are monitoring internet trafic 
> closely...

No it doesn't, and no they aren't. The US Secret Service is charged
with investigating bank fraud in the USA. When a bank thinks they have
been defrauded they don't call the FBI, they call the Secret Service,
who then investigate. One recent investigation showed that people
living outside the USA (in Slovenia) were able to represent themselves
to a US bank as living inside the USA by using this proxy service,
which is based in California. Nobody monitored the traffic, but all
financial transactions keep records, and those records gave the address
of my server as the source of the fraud.