[165592] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Seastrom)
Tue Sep 10 19:05:21 2013
To: William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
From: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:05:09 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20130910.185121.145639853.wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> (William
Waites's message of "Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:51:21 +0100 (BST)")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> Is this a good or a bad thing? I can remember back when there was a
> project in the 'states called Carnivore, and we had some American
> police -- I believe they were FBI -- come up and ask us politely if
> we'd like to put some of their machines on our network. Everybody
> pretty much uniformly said no. Shortly thereafter an American carrier
> showed up selling gigabit ethernet circuits to NYC for well below what
> was the going rate at the time and effectively pulled a lot of traffic
> that would otherwise have remained in country across the border.
More attributable to the unintended consequences of some of the more
draconian parts of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003
than of Carnivore, actually. :)
-r
