[NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd)

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Wed Oct 17 12:00:17 PDT 2001


On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 05:47:25PM +0000, Gil Hamilton wrote:
> At least you know where Baker stands.  And it ain't on the side of
> liberty!  (I *would* like to know why an ISP would hire Baker to
> represent them when FBI is asking them to conduct electronic
> surveillance; that seems a bit like asking the fox to help guard the
> henhouse.)

There's a long tradition of former spook-fed-law-enforcement-prosecutor
types being hired by the private sector. A few years ago Baker was
being paid to fill out export applications for Netscape etc. Now he's
doing this. No surprise.

-Declan





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