FBI seeks rerouting of certain traffic

[ccb at acm.org]

John Chambers said:
> Yup. Maybe what we should be doing is teaching a history lesson.  Way
> back  when  the  US  Defense  Department's  ARPA  (Advanced  Research
> Projects Agency) started funding development of what we now call  the
> Internet,  one  of  the  oft-quoted requirements was that the network
> continue to function under battlefield conditions....

Worse yet.  The whole idea is just technically insane.  You're going
to tap what?  Accesses to otherwise innocuous looking $10 ISP websites
that have steganographically-encoded messages on them?

Smells like the insane "War On Drugs" to me.


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