[9844] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Drafting Legislation [Yes, He *Is* a Bit Spooky] (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Humphrey)
Sun Jan 23 23:00:35 1994
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 22:49:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Doug Humphrey <digex@ss1.digex.net>
To: com-priv@psi.com
>There's no reason why the CIA should be prohibited from getting domestic
>open information, but there's no reason why the CIA's budget should be
>spent on the examination of this information for its own sake either. Its
>job isn't to record domestic information - why should any hardware or time
>be paid for to do this?
Has anyone actually said that the CIA would be using information
from the net for anything that they are forbidden (like domestic
ops) from doing? Why all the paranoia?
Besides, if you want to be paranoid about comm related things,
you are busting on the wrong agency!
Really, the spooks are not going to take over the net, at least
the CIA types aren't. I would worry more about the IRS looking
at postings on the net... Or some agency getting the modern day
equiv of the bandykin archives and looking through it. Shocking
what some people will says in "public" on the net ;-)
Doug
