________________________________________ From: jsq@internetperils.com [jsq@internetperils.com] On Behalf Of John S. Quarterman [jsq@quarterman.org] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:17 AM To: David Farber Cc: John S. Quarterman; ip Subject: Re: [IP] US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search Dave, for IP: The New Yorker article is available in HTML now: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/01/21/080121fa_fact_wright Bruce Schneier has nailed the "security vs. privacy" canard that McConnell promotes: "The debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control." http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/01/securitymatters_0124?currentPage=all& And while people may think that AT&T should worry about losing liability protection if it filters all traffic, if McConnell's plan goes through AT&T and other telcos and cablecos will be able to wrap themselves in the flag while they're doing it: http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2008/01/policing-cybers.html -jsq

From: Rich Kulawiec [rsk@gsp.org] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:41 PM To: Fergie; David Farber; Richard Forno; Lauren Weinstein Subject: US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web sear ch

Quoting from:

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_drafting_plan_to_allow_government_01 14.html

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today.

Debate on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act "will be a walk in the park compared to this," McConnell said. "this is going to be a goat rope on the Hill. My prediction is that we're going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens."

The article, which profiles the 65-year-old former admiral appointed by President George W. Bush in January 2007 to oversee all of America's intelligence agencies, was not published on the New Yorker's Web site. (It can be read here in pdf).

[...]

The PDF link points to:

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WashWire.pdf

which I'm unable to access at the moment.

---Rsk

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