At 01:54 PM 8/29/2003 -0700, you wrote:This has been proposed for, but it fails for the usual reasons.Stopping your notification that the service is not monitored can be
forbidden by a strict enough secrecy order. It may be the least legally
risky of the options. The fact that you will stop notification should be
included in your terms of service.
All covered in my previous postings. This approach should be particularly applicable to ISPs as they generally have billing arrangement and can add this on as an extra service fee for each inquiry. Instead of court orders being a cost they become a revenue source.
An ISP is free to say "anyone requesting a tap is required to pay a fee," just as any ISP is free to say that it will handle installation of special Carnivore equipment for a certain fee.
But when Big Brother commands that his Carnivore boxes be added, ISPs are afraid to shoot his agents who trespass.
And so the work is done for free. And so, too, will the fees you talk about be waived.
I think my solution may be best: take a few ISPs who have bent over for Big Brother and kill their owners and staff. A few ISP owners found necklaced and smoking may send a message to others. It works for the Mob in a way none of the more civilized approaches can possibly work.
"You narc us out, we douse your children with gasoline and light them off. Your choice."
Sometimes freedom demands harshness.
--Tim May
