[Full-Disclosure] Sonera directing customer e-mails to echelon@sonera.inet.fi

[Jei <jei@cc.hut.fi>]

Related news (in Finnish):

http://sektori.com/uutiset/5402

http://groups.google.fi/groups?hl=fi&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=opr3beiolnsfrjjd%40news.kolumbus.fi

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Here's a translated summary of the story so far:

Sonera (http://www.sonera.fi/) - Finland's biggest ISP's customers
have recently started receiving e-mails that have bounced back from
echelon@sonera.inet.fi address, with an error message that the e-mail
quota of that address is full.

Apparently, the automated error message indicates that all e-mails sent
via Sonera's e-mail servers are also directed to echelon@sonera.inet.fi
address, for reasons unknown.

Sonera has been recently in court due to communications privacy
violations and it is inconceivable why the company would use an
e-mail address with such a notorious name for any purpose.

Some background on echelon:

http://cryptome.org/cryptout.htm#Echelon
http://jya.com/ic2000-dc.htm

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