[43714] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Wed Oct 24 16:15:09 2001
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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:01:54 -0400
From: Christian Kuhtz <christian@kuhtz.com>
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To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl>, nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
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Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Paul Wouters wrote:
>
> > The NL has already answered this question last januari. When asked who
> > needs to be tappable, the answer is "everyone who is offering a public
> > internet service".
>
> And they have a strange notion of the word "public" too. I got the
> distinct impression (but nobody wanted to go on record for anything) they
> feel the Web server that's under my desk at home provides a "public"
> service too. So I should be prepared to aid the Dutch government in
> intercepting my own traffic. Which to me would seem to defeat the purpose,
> but what do I know?
Well, now, see, if you were a terrorist, you'd obviously happily cooperate.
