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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:13:23 -0700
From: Larry Diffey
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: FBI is at it again
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
