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On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> Lucky Green wrote:
> > In
> > particular, the "black box" monitoring device installed at the ISP level
> > appears to be in the process of becoming the implementation of choice.
> > Pioneered by Russia, this design has rapidly been adopted by the UK, and now
> > is used in the US.
>
> This may be a nit, but there are those of us who hope it is a nit of
> significance: unlike Russia or the US, the black box monitoring device
> is still a twinkle in the eye of the spooks in the UK. RIP is not yet
> law, and when and if it is, it may not include provision for such a box.
Note that there *are* no express provisions for this black box in the US,
and in fact there are many laws that would lead people like me to believe
it is probably illegal.
So the current status of the RIP bill may not be relevant to the existance
of black boxes on the UK Internet.
- -MW-
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