It's 1998; do you know where your packets are?

Thu Oct 1 06:22:06 UTC 1998

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Barry L James wrote:
> "Echelon is reportedly able to intercept, record, and translate any 
> electronic communication -- telephone, data, cellular, fax, email, telex 
> -- sent anywhere in the world. "

Cool. They've been sniffing my encrypted ssh connections and my once-a-day
Stephen Wright quotes. And, of course, my NANOG subscription. ;-)

> Seems far fetched (but not *that* far), but worth a read.

Someone's been watching too much X-Files.

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