At 10:36 PM 8/25/2003 -0400, you wrote:

To be real clever, he did not approach the website
>with the car adds directly. Police found out the add was approached
>trough a US anonymizer called SURFOLA.com. SURFOLA.com claims on their
>website :
>"We will not give out your name, residence address, or e-mail address
>to any third parties without your permission, for any reason, at any
>time, ever."
>
>The Utrecht police informed the FBI, and asked for assistance. Within
>24 hours, the FBI cracked the case, supplying the Dutch police with
>a '@wxs.nl' e-mail address and some paypal.com financial data.
>This data led to the 45 year old chip programmer.
>After his identity was known, the police ofcourse started surveillance on
>him. The 'desert terrorist' was arrested red-handed when he withdrew money
>from an ATM using the world-card copy....

He should have used a open WiFi hotspot at someone's home in a neighborhood far from his home.


steve



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