Editing Penet remailer (section)

==Third compromise and shutdown==
In September 1996, an anonymous user posted the [[Operating Thetan#Confidential materials|confidential writings]] of the [[Church of Scientology]] through the Penet remailer. The Church once again demanded that Julf turn over the identity of one of its users, claiming that the poster had infringed the [[Scientology and the legal system|Church's copyright]] on the [[Timeline_of_Scientology#1994 |confidential material]]. The Church was successful in finding the originating e-mail address of the posting before Penet remailed it, but it turned out to be another anonymous remailer: the alpha.c2.org [[Nym server|nymserver]], a more advanced and more secure remailer which didn't keep a mapping of e-mail addresses that could be [[subpoena]]ed.<ref name="Mendels">{{cite news |last1=Mendels |first1=Pamela |title=Scientology Case and Finnish Law Blamed for Demise of Remail Service |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/0905remail.html |work=New York Times |date=1996-09-05}}</ref>

Facing much criticism and many attacks, and unable to guarantee the anonymity of Penet users, Julf shut down the remailer in September 1996.<ref name="eff">{{Cite press release |title=Johan Helsingius closes his Internet remailer |date=1996-08-30 |url=https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/960830_penet_closure.announce |access-date=2014-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221336/https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/960830_penet_closure.announce |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead}}</ref>