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Police Target Free Email
Red Wolf writes "The Australian Federal Police are talking with the major free email providers in the hope of making it easier to trace suspects who use the accounts for crimes like fraud and paedophilia."
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Seeing as how I read the end of the summary as "...crimes such as fraud and Philadelphia..."
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
Where will I store my spam now?
The coolest voice ever.
...register their free courriel accounts to the address
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
then some real criminals can be apprehended =d
h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org
FBI man #1: I think I found another one.
FBI man #2: Who is it this time?
FBI man #1: JohanSBach@freemail.ms -- he claims to be 4 years old and living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
FBI man #2: I think I got one too! GWBushy@mailrus.gov claims to live in the same place!
FBI man #1: You know, when I started this project, I thought it would be a little easier than this.
FBI man #2: I know what you mean...we've gone though 150,000 email accounts so far and have found only 5 accounts that weren't fraudulent.
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.