[43920] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FBI is at it again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucy E. Lynch)
Sun Oct 28 12:09:45 2001
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:08:51 -0800 (PST)
From: "Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: Larry Diffey <ldiffey@technologyforward.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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I suspect that the FBI is the least of your worries:
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/dio.pdf
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/
Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services
Computing Center University of Oregon
llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-1774/Cell: 912-7998
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Larry Diffey wrote:
> 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!!!!
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> What gall!! What nerve!!!!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I'm gonna stop before I say something that will get me arrested.
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> Regards,
>
> Larry Diffey
>
