http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46747,00.html
Peter Kosenko
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:36:33 -0400
>I asked Panix what they knew of this. Here's their answer:
>
>>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:
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>>[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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