Matthew Gaylor
Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:46:45 -0700
Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jim may be a great guy (and I've enjoyed reading his articles in the >past), but it does not excuse misstatements in the piece Matt >circulated. > >At 02:56 4/28/2000 -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote: >>In October 1999, members of the international Internet Engineering >>Task Force revealed that the FBI was pressuring them to create a >>"surveillance-friendly" architecture for Internet communications. >>The Bureau wanted the Task Force to > >This is baldly incorrect. The FBI did not pressure them; the IETF's >move was a pre-emptive one. > >After the IETF said they would consider it, the FBI told me in an >interview that they supported the move. Bovard has his timing >backwards. I wouldn't necessarily discount the FBI making public media statements while privately working for a "surveillance-friendly" architecture. Perhaps Jim can illuminate his point? >>Last fall news broke about the existence of Echelon, a spy >>satellite system run by the National Security Agency along with the >>United Kingdom, Australia, > >Last fall? What about our Wired coverage from fall 1998? > >http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=echelon I too pointed out to Jim that the Echelon story really broke much earlier. I pointed out that my private mailing list (Freematt's Alerts) first mentioned Echelon in 1996. At 12:35 PM -0500 12/14/96, Matthew Gaylor wrote: >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 12:35:00 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Gaylor) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Gaylor) >Subject: Echelon: The Global Surveillance System > >EXPOSING THE GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM by Nicky Hager > >------ The article as it apears in hard copy in the magazine also includes >the following sidebars: --"NSA'S BUSINESS PLAN: GLOBAL ACCESS" by Duncan >Campbell --GREENPEACE WARRIOR: WHY NO WARNING? and --NZ's PM Kept in the >Dark by Nicky Hager ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per month) Matthew Gaylor,1933 E. Dublin-Granville Rd., PMB 176, Columbus, OH 43229 Archived at http://www.egroups.com/list/fa/ **************************************************************************