[165481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sholes, Joshua)
Fri Sep 6 09:30:24 2013
From: "Sholes, Joshua" <Joshua_Sholes@cable.comcast.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 13:29:58 +0000
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>The answer is
>not much because I will not and can not break the law, it's unethical
>and wrong.
I invite you to consider the concept of civil disobedience--where the law
is unethical or wrong it can be argued that it's also unethical and wrong
to FOLLOW the law.
I haven't yet been placed in a position, and I doubt I will given the arc
of my career, where I would have to make the choice between enabling this
kind of surveillance quietly or blowing the whistle on it. I hope, as I
imagine most of us do, that I'd choose to do the "right" thing (and
correctly determine which option is "right", which is probably the real
trick).
--=20
Josh Sholes
