At 09:54 PM 1/25/2003 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: >William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>But there is a strong economic rationale. We save untold operational >>expense, support costs, and legal fees. (The legal cost of complying with >>that single interstate subpoena cost us an entire month of revenue.) > >Lucky Green a while back reported that some European ISPs charge customers >less if they use IPsec because then there's less cost involved in complying >with surveillance requirements.
It will be more expensive to obey an ISP's lawyer and somewhat less expensive to sell tappable service. That's the way of economic intimidation. Cheapest is to ignore the subpoena and never seek legal advice. The ISP world won't collapse despite chicken little warning. And ISPs look like cowardly shits for caving. Ponder the lessons of defiant, dissident publishers, and plan to increase your sales by putting your customers before your firm. ISPs are using lawyerly advice to cloak betrayal and cowardice. Fire the ISP lawyer, especially if in house. Pay the difference to sysadmins willing to fight. There's a stampede to comply with obnoxious law, better to throw a TIA party as D advises. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
