FBI is at it again

Sat Oct 27 16:39:56 UTC 2001

Oh please stop before this goes into a another full blown session of having
to delete junk from my nanog folder again be rational and consider the
situation.

(1) Media rumor
(2) You have got to be kidding
(3) Businesses will not let this happen as it will cost them money so the
PACs will go nuts
(4) Privacy groups will sue
(5) Law enforcement and military makes plans for everything and I mean every
crazy next to impossible scenario. Thinking about something is not wrong
(6) Partisan politics will come into play
(7) Individuals will lobby and make noise

But for all this to happen they have to DO something not just acknowledge
making plans and thinking. Now sit down the wolf is not here yet.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Larry Diffey
  Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 2:13 AM
  To: nanog at 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
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