[19938] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: It's 1998; do you know where your packets are?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward S. Marshall)
Thu Oct 1 02:35:23 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 01:22:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@logic.net>
To: Barry L James <bjames@terraware.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.980930193134.11810C-100000@BJsUnixBox.terraware.net>
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Barry L James wrote:
> "Echelon is reportedly able to intercept, record, and translate any
> electronic communication -- telephone, data, cellular, fax, email, telex
> -- sent anywhere in the world. "
Cool. They've been sniffing my encrypted ssh connections and my once-a-day
Stephen Wright quotes. And, of course, my NANOG subscription. ;-)
> Seems far fetched (but not *that* far), but worth a read.
Someone's been watching too much X-Files.
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Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net> http://www.logic.net/~emarshal/ -o)
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