[43896] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FBI is at it again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (herb@tomobiki.urusei.net)
Sat Oct 27 02:34:49 2001
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From: herb@tomobiki.urusei.net
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:36:12 -0700 (PDT)
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> Per the following article: =
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37203,00.html it appears as if the =
> FBI now wants to route ALL Internet traffic through it's central =
> servers!!!!
>
> What gall!! What nerve!!!!
>
> Now, for all of you who said, "Hey, I'm not doing anything wrong, let =
> the FBI monitor what it wants to." can go shove hot spikes up your nose.
>
> I don't think the FBI really wants to control the Internet, they want to =
> destabilize it. As tyranny approaches the only thing more dangerous =
> than an armed populace is an informed one. If they can monitor all the =
> traffic, they can certainly control it.
>
> The ISP's (whatever those are) need to collectively tell the FBI to go =
> jump off a bridge. Information campaigns need to be sent to the =
> customers to alert them of the potential loss of civil liberties.
>
> I'm gonna stop before I say something that will get me arrested.
>
> Regards,
>
> Larry Diffey
Here's an idea: Shove it at them! If they want to have a running log of
everything that goes on in the 'Net, let them try to keep up. I hope
they have a lot of solid state disks...
/herb
