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Re: Are there enough FBI agents to handle Digital Telephony?????

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Tue Nov 21 11:50:43 1995

Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 11:45:59 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: rah@shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga)

>Has anyone ever done the math on the FBI's new wire tapping
>proposals and determined whether they'll have enough agents to
>do all of the listening?

Hettinga's Corollary to Gilmore's Law ("Censorship is Damage")

In a geodesic network, one node can't route all the traffic. It will choke.

Cheers,
Bob

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