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Re: FBI involves itself in Verio merger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Wayner)
Fri Jul 7 10:25:55 2000
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To: Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf@priori.net>, cryptography@c2.net
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Looks like the FBI is between a rock and a hard place. If they keep
pushing Calea, they force the engineers to make it super easy for
people to spy on the US. Why bother to send folks skulking around in
the middle of the night when you can just buy a backbone provider?
You might even make some money!
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