[43524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Wed Oct 17 17:02:59 2001
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:58:19 -0700
To: "Larry Diffey" <ldiffey@technologyforward.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
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On 01:40 PM 10/17/2001 -0700, Larry Diffey wrote:
>
>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.
"Those who are willing to trade freedom for security deserve neither
freedom nor security."
--- Benjamin Franklin
Who was, ironically, the first US Postmaster General. I'm sure he's
rolling over in his grave.
