>Panix's response is likely to be what it has been-- we'll comply
>with a court order.
>
>As of now, we have no specific information as to just how bad
>it is, or what will be required, so it's hard to make a statement,
>but if we refuse and they shut us down it doesn't do anyone
>much good.
Doug
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Ian Murray wrote:
>[can anybody confirm the veracity of the below?]
>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:33 PM
>Subject: FBI TO REQUIRE ISPS TO RECONFIGURE E-MAIL SYSTEMS
>
>
>> PRIVACY: FBI TO REQUIRE ISPS TO RECONFIGURE E-MAIL SYSTEMS
>> The FBI is in the process of finalizing technical guidelines that
>would
>> require all Internet service providers to reconfigure their e-mail
>> systems so they could be more easily accessible to law enforcers.
>The
>> move, to be completed over the next two months, would cause ISPs to
>act
>> as phone companies do to comply with a 1994 digital-wiretapping law.
>> "They are in the process of developing a very detailed set of
>standards
>> for how to make packet data" available to the FBI, said Stewart
>Baker,
>> an attorney at Steptoe & Johnson who was formerly the chief counsel
>to
>> the National Security Agency.
>>
>> Source: National Journal's Technology Daily / Politech
>> http://www.politechbot.com/p-02671.html
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