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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Re:fastmail.fm

[femto]

Any user of Australian services should be aware that Australia doesn't have a bill of rights. The Government is controlled by the constitution, but not much else. The constitution basically controls 'administrative' stuff, such as voting and parliamentary procedure.

When it comes to such things as privacy, freedom of speech, and so on, all bets are off and you are at the whim of the government. Traditionally, Australian governments have respected such things, but the current government, in the name of anti-terror, is steamrolling tradition.

Re:More Accurate Headline?

[AnswerIs42]

Actually, no.

Re-read the article.. they want the elimination of all free email service worldwide.

They, and I quote: '"Do away with free internet (email) accounts," he said. "If they aren't free then people will pay by credit card and that gives law enforcement some starting point.'

They want their jobs to be easier.

Another great quote: '"There will always be rogue states that will provide an internet haven in the same way they provide a banking haven," he said. "This has to be seriously raised at an international level."'

So, the subject line is correct, for once.

Anonymail

[Realistic_Dragon]

It's worth noting that there is now one truley anonymous e-mail service, anonymail, which runs off the back of the IIP IRC network. At the moment outgoing mail is limited to replies to incomming mail, but because of the nature of IIP it would be hard to impossible to find out who send what to where.

Payment for the service is by hash cash, a computationally expensive operation you must perform to be able to register, as a way of deterring spammers and other system abuses. In that respect it's better than conventional e-mail at present - no spam to my mailbox yet.