> 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

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