Re: FBI is at it again

["Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch () darkwing uoregon edu>]

I suspect that the FBI is the least of your worries:

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/dio.pdf

http://www.homelandsecurity.org/

Lucy E. Lynch                           Academic User Services
Computing Center                        University of Oregon
llynch () darkwing uoregon edu          (541) 346-1774/Cell: 912-7998

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Larry Diffey wrote:

> 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