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Re: U.S. officials deny technical takedown of WikiLeaks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Dec 4 21:42:31 2010
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:41:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
>
> On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 19:24:46 EST, Bret Clark said:
> > On 12/04/2010 06:03 PM, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> > > Now Sarah Palin is suggesting Wikileaks are terrorists and should
> > > be taken offline with technical capabilities
>
> > Enough already...this is not a political list!
>
> However, given the political climate and general network cluelessness
> in the government sector, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to spend an hour
> or so thinking what you'd do if the humorless guys in dark suits and
> sunglasses showed up with a court order to cut off your customer's access to
> Wikilieaks, even if you aren't their upstream.
And enumerating some of those thoughts is Lauren Weinstein of Privacy Forum:
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000788.html
I don't always agree with everything Lauren says, but it seems to me he
has this one taped pretty well.
Cheers,
-- jra
