Anonymizer bought out

Anonymizer Acquired by Abraxas - Anonymity for The National Security Community

Anonymizer has been acquired by Abraxas, a “risk mitigation” company who’s customers are the National Security Community (NSA, CIA, DIA, etc).

Article via Ironkey blog

Surprised no-one got on to this one earlier.

 

Re: Anonymizer brought out

I don't see the news value of this, as everybody knows there is no REAL anonymous proxy in the USA.

History shows that they ALL KEEP LOG files..

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8317

The contradiction here, is you need a anon proxy from a less free country
here, to be certain that nobody is spying on you.

But for most anon proxy users, they don't mind that the government is
watching them, they just don't want to be bothered by others.

Perhaps the quality of the product will be better

BTW:
Please explain why anon proxies should HAVE and keep their logfiles

 

It appears to me that the reason why the Dutch Internet blackmailer was caught (and I’m glad this occurred!) was that he incorrectly assumed that Anonymizer provided anonymity for FTP downloads – and it does not. The service only routes HTTP and HTTPS traffic through its proxy server.

I don’t see that this specific case has anything to do with user log files, which Anonymizer claims that it does not maintain, based upon my own email conversations with the company in which it said: “Anonymizer does not keep logs or monitor customer usage.”