more on Editorial for IP: Fishing in Cyberspace (NY Times, 21 Jan 06)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Steve Goldstein <steve.goldstein () cox net>
Date: January 21, 2006 3:23:37 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: Re: [IP] Editorial for IP: Fishing in Cyberspace (NY Times,  
21 Jan 06)

I am not totally convinced that this is the whole story.  I have only  
partial information, but I had heard that last week was the due date  
for proposals to the US DOD (Army, I think, but not entirely sure)  
for capturing the contents of the ENTIRE Internet onto storage media-- 
an unclassified project.  A friend from one defense contractor that  
was bidding on the job had mentioned it to me, and I referred the  
friend to Brewster Kale's activities in that arena (now at http:// 
www.archive.org/index.php). See also: http://jove.eng.yale.edu/ 
pipermail/eas-info/2001/000365.html

Anyway, I wonder if this is an attempt to obtain inputs for that  
project, and if the porn-probe is just a cover.  But, that might be  
presuming an unrealistic degree of coordination among Gummint agencies.

--Steve


At 2:49 PM -0500 1/21/06, THE NEW YORK TIMES wrote:
> The Justice Department wants a federal judge to force Google to  
> turn over millions of private Internet searches. Google is rightly  
> fighting the demand, but the government says America Online, Yahoo  
> and MSN, Microsoft's online service, have already complied with  
> similar requests.
> This is not about national security. The Justice Department is  
> making this baldfaced grab to try to prop up an online pornography  
> law that has been blocked once by the Supreme Court. And it's not  
> the first time we've seen this sort of behavior.



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