Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd)

[JC Dill <nanog () vo cnchost com>]

On 01:40 PM 10/17/2001 -0700, Larry Diffey wrote:
>
>Let's consider the ramifications of this:
>
>The FBI steps up the monitoring of law abiding citizens and great expense to
>private industry.
>
>Criminals, terrorists and other evildoers think about and say,
>"Hmmm......since the FBI might monitor the email that passes through our
>ISP, let's set up our own mail servers outside of our ISP and communicate
>directly over VPN's and encrypted P2P networks.  Yeah that should work.  Or
>gosh, let's use off shore email serves set up by our own criminal networks
>posing as legitimate businesses.  Or let's set up an little ISP and have
>some out of band email servers who's traffic can't be spied on."
>
>"Those who would trade freedom for security will wind up with neither." I
>forget who said it and I don't feel like looking it up.

"Those who are willing to trade freedom for security deserve neither 
freedom nor security."
--- Benjamin Franklin

Who was, ironically, the first US Postmaster General.  I'm sure he's 
rolling over in his grave.