FBI moves to route internet through central servers: Another dagger in the Heart of Freedom in America

[Jim Choate]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Matt Beland wrote:

> > - Purchase and offer 802.11 public access points
> 
> Which does absolutely nothing to help the situation. Traffic from access 
> point to access point is still through landlines, still controlled by ISPs, 
> and still subject to monitoring. The source might be obfuscated, but that's 
> not security or privacy - that's just making LEA's work a little harder and 
> spend a little more money which they'll take from us, anyway.

That's not entirely correct. In fact there are examples of dedicated lines
being used for wireless interconnectivity to bypass the traditional
network. The 802.11b are worthless for anything but playing around with,
but the 802.11a that just came out has sufficient bandwidth and range to
become a real contender with respect to spontaneous urban network layers.


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