IP: In Russia, big brother isn't watching, he's reading -- online

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
>
> [So how are the neo-KGB's activities any different from what the US is
> doing with Echelon etc.? Oh, right. We live in an enlightened
> constitutional home-of-the-free republic, and they're a repressive anarchic
> former communist state. --Declan]
>
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:00:17 -0700
> > From: Jack Dean <JackDean () InternetCampaigns com>
> > To: Declan McCullagh <declan () wired com>
> > Subject: In Russia, big brother isn't watching, he's reading -- online
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:COMP24/1:COMP24083099.html
> >
> > Updated: Monday, Aug. 30, 1999 at 12:13 CDT
> >
> > In Russia, big brother isn't watching, he's reading -- online
> >
> >                      By Charles W. Holmes
> >                      c.1999 Cox News Service
> >
> >                      MOSCOW -- In the former Soviet Union,
> >                      Big Brother may not be watching you any
> >                      longer, but he'd like a peak at your e-mail.
> >
> >                      Russia's security service, the FSB,
> >                      the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB,
> >                      is tapping into most of the country's
> >                      Internet service providers under a federal
> >                      directive that allows it sweeping powers to
> >                      monitor e-mail and Internet traffic.
> >
> >                      More . . .
>
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