Dutch ‘Dessert terrorist’ nabbed
p2pnet.net News:- A Dutch criminal dubbed the ‘dessert terrorist’ was convicted of attempted murder and given a ten-year prison sentence for trying to extort e200,000 (about US$242,000) from a Dutch dairy company by lacing its yoghurts and other desserts with pesticide.
Dutch police received help from behavioural experts and toxicologists, as well as the Dutch Forensic Institute and Institute for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), says DMeurope.com here.
But the extortionist used a classified-ad website to receive bank and payment details of the planned fund transfer with Surfola.com, a US anonymiser.
In theory, an anonymiser uses an untraceable IP address to offer clients anonymity.
“However, an IP address is unique and quite simple to trace back to an internet service provider or websurfer?s PC, and for a Dutch investigating magistrate to subsequently secure the necessary details for an internet tap” says DMeurope.com.
