IP: Russian Internet Police

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

> From: "Rob Raisch" <raisch () rivalworks com>
> To: "Dave Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
>          SORM-2, the Russian security service's plans to monitor the
>          Internet, finally broke this week, with one Volgograd ISP
>          manager, Nailj Murzahanov, deciding he'd had enough, and
>          suing the spooks in court. SORM-2 is a Tap-You-Yourself
>          policy by the cash-strapped KGB successors, the FSB: it
>          requires ISPs to connect their local FSB office for free to
>          their pipe, with agents able to sniff any and all packets
>          (incoming and outgoing) from the comforts of their offices. 
>          Oh, and the ISPs have to provide free support and training.
>
> Full Story: http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/466/internet.htm
> Culled from "Need To Know", http://www.ntk.net/
>
> -- 
> Rob Raisch CTO - RivalWorks, Inc. <http://www.raisch.com>