[IP] more on Editorial for IP: Fishing in Cyberspace (NY Times, 21 Jan 06)
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From: Steve Goldstein <steve.goldstein@xxxxxxx>
Date: January 21, 2006 3:23:37 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Editorial for IP: Fishing in Cyberspace (NY Times,
21 Jan 06)
I am not totally convinced that this is the whole story. I have only
partial information, but I had heard that last week was the due date
for proposals to the US DOD (Army, I think, but not entirely sure)
for capturing the contents of the ENTIRE Internet onto storage media--
an unclassified project. A friend from one defense contractor that
was bidding on the job had mentioned it to me, and I referred the
friend to Brewster Kale's activities in that arena (now at http://
www.archive.org/index.php). See also: http://jove.eng.yale.edu/
pipermail/eas-info/2001/000365.html
Anyway, I wonder if this is an attempt to obtain inputs for that
project, and if the porn-probe is just a cover. But, that might be
presuming an unrealistic degree of coordination among Gummint agencies.
--Steve
At 2:49 PM -0500 1/21/06, THE NEW YORK TIMES wrote:
The Justice Department wants a federal judge to force Google to
turn over millions of private Internet searches. Google is rightly
fighting the demand, but the government says America Online, Yahoo
and MSN, Microsoft's online service, have already complied with
similar requests.
This is not about national security. The Justice Department is
making this baldfaced grab to try to prop up an online pornography
law that has been blocked once by the Supreme Court. And it's not
the first time we've seen this sort of behavior.
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