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Web Privacy Firm Shuts Down
The Associated Press ^ | AP-ES-11-19-01 2236EST | The Associated Press

Posted on 11/19/2001 7:31:44 PM PST by TheOtherOne

Web Privacy Firm Shuts Down

Published: Nov 19, 2001

EMERYVILLE, Calif. (AP) - SafeWeb Inc., the CIA-funded Internet company that allowed Web surfers to browse anonymously, has closed.

"For the time being, we have decided to turn off the free privacy service. In the future, we may relaunch the service on a subscription basis," the Emeryville-based company said last week.

SafeWeb's technology enabled Internet users to gain access to the World Wide Web and browse sites through its encrypted service, making their online habits and history untraceable.

The company had unsuccessfully sought a contract with U.S. government broadcaster Voice of America to set up computer servers aimed at routing Chinese Web surfers to sites their government had censored.

Last year SafeWeb received $1 million in funding from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.

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1 posted on 11/19/2001 7:31:44 PM PST by TheOtherOne
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A CIA-funded company running an anonymous server?

Call me suspicious, but that doesn't seem too anonymous to me...

2 posted on 11/19/2001 7:34:46 PM PST by sargon
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SafeWeb Inc., the CIA-funded Internet company that allowed Web surfers to browse anonymously, has closed.

I think my head is gonna explode.

3 posted on 11/19/2001 7:36:38 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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To: sargon
That's exactly my thoughts when I read this article. The "anonymous" website sounds like a smokescreen to me. The CIA was probably trying to get terrorists and purveyors of kiddie porn to use the website and then nab them.
4 posted on 11/19/2001 7:38:57 PM PST by Hillary 666
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To: TheOtherOne; CommiesOut; Black Jade
FYI
5 posted on 11/19/2001 7:40:20 PM PST by Free the USA
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To: Hillary 666
Yup, sounded like a sting for kidde porn when I first heard about it. I did not know the CIA was funding them though.
6 posted on 11/19/2001 7:47:21 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: sargon
You people are being to cynical. Well, maybe not, but you're probably wrong anyway ;-) SafeWeb was set up as a typical dotcom in the boom days, and their big product was privacy and secure transmissions. The CIA originally stepped in as a customer of SafeWeb, they wanted to use their commercial setup to communicate safely with overseas operatives. Later, SafeWeb was on the verge of going belly up when the dotcoms dotbombed, so the CIA handed them a wad of cash to keep them operating. Since SafeWeb was the only entirely U.S. based company offering that kind of service, it was in the CIA's interest to keep them operating (the other anonymizing services on the Internet use foreign servers to dodge U.S. laws). While I'll admit that there's a possibility of something shady going on, I think that the whole thing was mostly on the up and up.
8 posted on 11/19/2001 7:58:42 PM PST by Arthalion
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10 posted on 11/19/2001 8:24:21 PM PST by Z-28
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To: Free the USA; madrussian; malarski; Askel5; GROUCHOTWO; Zviadist; kristinn; struwwelpeter...
Hehe!
11 posted on 11/19/2001 8:37:02 PM PST by CommiesOut
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To: TheOtherOne
In-Q-Tel is an independent, private, non-profit company funded by the U.S. government with one objective: to identify and deliver next generation information technologies to support CIA's critical intellegence missions.

Good one. Independent, private and gov't funded, all in the same breath.

13 posted on 11/19/2001 8:44:31 PM PST by jmp702
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To: TheOtherOne
SafeWeb Inc., the CIA-funded Internet company that allowed Web surfers to browse anonymously, has closed.

Actually, we developed our own O/S. It allows us to tap directly in to users hard drives. It's called Windows XP.

14 posted on 11/19/2001 9:10:17 PM PST by NoCurrentFreeperByThatName
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To: ResistorSister
Ping

randystone

15 posted on 11/19/2001 9:20:24 PM PST by randystone
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To: jmp702
Good one. Independent, private and gov't funded, all in the same breath.

LOL You forgot the REAL giveaway: non-profit :)

16 posted on 11/19/2001 11:44:07 PM PST by Lion's Cub
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To: Z-28
Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charges, ambush, sniping, motorcade, IRS, BATF, jtf-6, mjtf, hrt, srt, hostages, munitions, weapons, TNT, rdx, anfo, hmtd, picric acid, silver nitrite, mercury fulminate, presidential ...

Nice list. Now how about adding appropriate link tags? That ought to you busy for a while :).

17 posted on 11/19/2001 11:55:23 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: *Privacy_list
Private ping.
18 posted on 11/19/2001 11:56:25 PM PST by American Preservative
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To: Z-28
GeeZ, that's a mother of a list. Where's Waldo? : )
19 posted on 11/20/2001 12:17:04 AM PST by American Preservative
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