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Re: FBI involves itself in Verio merger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Jul 7 14:16:12 2000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Peter Wayner <pcw2@flyzone.com>
Cc: Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf@priori.net>, cryptography@c2.net
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:08:26 -0400
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In message <p0431010fb58af1981df7@[10.0.1.42]>, Peter Wayner writes:
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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!
The Washington Post story makes interesting reading.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=wpni/print&articleid=A59371-2000Jul6)
They quote Stewart Baker -- former general counsel to NSA -- as saying
that this is the FBI's way of applying pressure on ISPs to co-operate
on wiretap issues and the like. Both Baker and Dave Farber (now chief
technologist for the FCC) have pointed out that this is also likely to
start a trade war with Japan, especially since the U.S. is pressuring
Japan to open its telecommunications markets.
--Steve Bellovin
