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

[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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