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RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Zito)
Wed Oct 17 16:49:38 2001
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From: Matt Zito <mzito@register.com>
To: 'Larry Diffey' <ldiffey@technologyforward.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:51:00 -0400
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Benjamin franklin said it, iirc.
Matt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Diffey [mailto:ldiffey@technologyforward.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:41 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail
> Systems (fwd)
>
>
>
> Let's consider the ramifications of this:
>
> The FBI steps up the monitoring of law abiding citizens and
> great expense to
> private industry.
>
> Criminals, terrorists and other evildoers think about and say,
> "Hmmm......since the FBI might monitor the email that passes
> through our
> ISP, let's set up our own mail servers outside of our ISP and
> communicate
> directly over VPN's and encrypted P2P networks. Yeah that
> should work. Or
> gosh, let's use off shore email serves set up by our own
> criminal networks
> posing as legitimate businesses. Or let's set up an little
> ISP and have
> some out of band email servers who's traffic can't be spied on."
>
> "Those who would trade freedom for security will wind up with
> neither." I
> forget who said it and I don't feel like looking it up.
>
>
