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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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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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