Jim may be a great guy (and I've enjoyed reading his articles in the past), but it does not excuse misstatements in the piece Matt circulated. At 02:56 4/28/2000 -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote: >In October 1999, members of the international Internet Engineering Task >Force revealed that the FBI was pressuring them to create a >"surveillance-friendly" architecture for Internet communications. The >Bureau wanted the Task Force to This is baldly incorrect. The FBI did not pressure them; the IETF's move was a pre-emptive one. After the IETF said they would consider it, the FBI told me in an interview that they supported the move. Bovard has his timing backwards. >Last fall news broke about the existence of Echelon, a spy satellite >system run by the National Security Agency along with the United Kingdom, >Australia, Last fall? What about our Wired coverage from fall 1998? http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=echelon http://search.hotwired.com/search97/s97.vts?action=FilterSearch&QueryZip=%3CSum%3E%28%5B%2E90%5D%28%3CMany%3E%3CStem%3E%60echelon%60%29%2C+%5B%2E10%5D%28%3CYesNo%3E%28%28%3CMany%3E%3CStem%3E%60echelon%60%29+%3CIn%3E+%60title%60%29%29%29&Filter=docs%5Ffilter%2Ehts&ResultTemplate=news%2Ehts&QueryText=echelon&Collection=news&SortField=Pubdate&SortOrder=Desc&ResultStart=31&ResultCount=10&ResultStyle= -Declan
