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[FYI] (Fwd) Russian internet wiretaps
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- From: Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)
- Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 21:03:10 +0100
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To: cryptography@c2.net
Subject: Russian internet wiretaps
Reply-to: perry@piermont.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 21 May 1999 13:45:47 -0400
A posting to Dave Farber's "Interesting People" list. I can't say that
I entirely blame the Russian secret police -- after all, they're only
copying the FBI's demands.
Perry
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>From: "Rob Raisch" <raisch@rivalworks.com>
>To: "Dave Farber" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
> SORM-2, the Russian security service's plans to monitor the
> Internet, finally broke this week, with one Volgograd ISP
> manager, Nailj Murzahanov, deciding he'd had enough, and
> suing the spooks in court. SORM-2 is a Tap-You-Yourself
> policy by the cash-strapped KGB successors, the FSB: it
> requires ISPs to connect their local FSB office for free to
> their pipe, with agents able to sniff any and all packets
> (incoming and outgoing) from the comforts of their offices.
> Oh, and the ISPs have to provide free support and training.
>
>Full Story: http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/466/internet.htm
>Culled from "Need To Know", http://www.ntk.net/
>
>--
>Rob Raisch CTO - RivalWorks, Inc. <http://www.raisch.com>
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