Are you kidding? Germany doesn't cooperate with the UK and US on matters like this?
There's no perfect solution, but JAP is constantly extending its services and mix cascades. Nothing is gained by obscurity here - even if it's tempting - and I surely don't trust an unknown open SOCKS proxy wherever it may be. It is much too easy to setup honeypots and this way you can never be sure. Projects like JAP do have the advantage to document their actions, as far as it is legally possible (and beyond).
Also I don't know which matters you mean exactly. It's definitely not possible to just do a call to Germany to get all information you want. But given the proper excuse and some forms of pressure you can gain almost every information you like. Anonymity has no general purpose solution and to trust only in one solution is childish and like a lottery game.
The JAP service was not back-doored. It was forced to log access to a specific website (which was offering child porn), but now a court decided that the initial claims were not legal. It's true that they didn't mention the logging but the used software is open source, which is why the whole thing got unrevealed: JAP gave it to open source and the people found the logging functions. The whole subject is now extensively documented here (no translation, sorry).
In my opinion the JAP people did their utmost to keep this service as it was meant to be. There are laws which can't be ignored, in every country.
In fact, IP logging in germany has no consequences except if you're a german resident, which is why I don't really understand the problem.
Regarding BIND, wouldn't it be the proper solution to simply reject A and MX records, which resolve to a wildcard result, at least for TLDs? As "ping *.com" shows, there's a non-static way to match these IPs.
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There's no perfect solution, but JAP is constantly extending its services and mix cascades. Nothing is gained by obscurity here - even if it's tempting - and I surely don't trust an unknown open SOCKS proxy wherever it may be. It is much too easy to setup honeypots and this way you can never be sure. Projects like JAP do have the advantage to document their actions, as far as it is legally possible (and beyond).
Also I don't know which matters you mean exactly. It's definitely not possible to just do a call to Germany to get all information you want. But given the proper excuse and some forms of pressure you can gain almost every information you like. Anonymity has no general purpose solution and to trust only in one solution is childish and like a lottery game.
The JAP service was not back-doored. It was forced to log access to a specific website (which was offering child porn), but now a court decided that the initial claims were not legal. It's true that they didn't mention the logging but the used software is open source, which is why the whole thing got unrevealed: JAP gave it to open source and the people found the logging functions. The whole subject is now extensively documented here (no translation, sorry).
In my opinion the JAP people did their utmost to keep this service as it was meant to be. There are laws which can't be ignored, in every country.
In fact, IP logging in germany has no consequences except if you're a german resident, which is why I don't really understand the problem.
Regarding BIND, wouldn't it be the proper solution to simply reject A and MX records, which resolve to a wildcard result, at least for TLDs? As "ping *.com" shows, there's a non-static way to match these IPs.