> Steve Schear[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > This crackpot idea is a follow-on to my suggestion for improving public > library privacy in the face of TLA inquiries. The basic notion here is > for > na ISP to allow all its premises to be bugged. Every room (except maybe > the restroom) by its clients (or their proxies). All communication could > be monitored and the ISP would have no control. My understanding of court > > orders that they must be served on the ISP at its business address. Once > the order is opened or discussed by the designated employee who receives > the data all its clients would know in short order. The employees and > management will not have been responsible because they have not taken any > affirmative actions to allow the information to escape their > custody. They will have protected the info withe the same diligence they > > show their own data. ;-) > > steve > A year or two ago, I suggested to someone associated with http://www.thebunker.com (an ISP based in an underground ex-RAF bunker in Britain) that they set up a web-accessible camera on the entrance, so that anyone could detect an attack in progress.
They don't seem to have done so. Peter Trei