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Re: RBN and it's spin-offs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed Dec 30 23:43:39 2009

In-Reply-To: <1262234189.14004.47.camel@petrie>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:42:56 -0800
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:36 PM, William Pitcock
<nenolod@systeminplace.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 23:25 -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:13 PM, William Pitcock
>> <nenolod@systeminplace.net> wrote:
>>
>> > It "worked" against Indymedia UK: http://www.indymedia.org/fbi/
>>
>> indymedia is in texas, no mlat required.
>
> It was an MLAT initiated by the Dutch government because someone posted
> pictures of a Dutch policeman breaking the law that they wanted removed.
>
> Yes, the M in MLAT stands for *Mutual*.  As in, it goes both ways.
>

The IndyMedia incident illustrates the problem, in my opinion -- going
after child's play instead of hardcore criminals.

Que Sera...

- - ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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