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Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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From: uc006@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Michael Bakunin)
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Calgary Herald Feb 2/94
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Cyber-Nazis baffle German police
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BERLIN(AP)- A year-old computer network has become
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the communications backbone of Germany's Nazi scene, with users
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sharing ideas on how to rid the country of foreigners, co-ordinate
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illegal rallies and swap bomb-making recipes.
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The Thule Network, guarded by passwords and loyalty tests,
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consists of at least a dozen bulletin boards in three western German
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states, law-enforcement officials and computer experts said. It is
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used by Nazis to avoid detection by police.
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The network's name derives from a German secret society
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that included many leading Nazis among its membership.
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With the network's aid, some 500 neo-Nazis formed a convoy
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that drove into the city of Fulda and rallied unhindered last year.
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But the Thule Network is much more than a place to look for
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rides to rallies.
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Suppose some young Nazis want to put out a newspaper, for example,
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but lack the know-how. Just plug into Resistance, one of the
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network's bulletin boards. "A network-connected attorney can
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check the text, a graphics office can put together the newspaper,"
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the Resistance host says in a digital preamble.
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The network is also a refuge- where a crowd closely watched by
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police can disappear into cyberspace. Technologically ahead of most
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police, network gatekeepers are having considerable success keeping
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out the law.
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Not a single one has been prosecuted.
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"German police don't know much about computers and bulletin
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boards. It's very new for them," said Uwe Kauss, editor of the
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Munich-based computer magazine Chip, which has penetrated the network
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through informants.
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Chip estimates 1,500 of Germany's more than 40,000 Nazis are
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active on the network. Along with mobile phones and answering machines,
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the Thule Network is helping a diverse Nazi scene establish a united
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front - a phenomenon acknowledged by Germany's government.
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