On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Anonymous wrote:
>
><http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/sorm.html>
>
>New KGB Takes Internet by SORM
>
>The Russian government has just authorized itself to spy on everything
>its citizens do on the Net -- and to punish ISPs that won't help. So
>much for post-Soviet civil rights.
>
>by Jen Tracy
>Feb. 4, 2000
>
>MOSCOW -- Human rights activists were outraged when Russia's KGB
>successor agency, the FSB, launched a grand project -- code-named
>SORM -- to spy on its citizens' Internet transmissions. But as
>if that weren't disturbing enough, last month acting President
>and ex-KGB agent Vladimir Putin gave the Orwellian project a
>momentous but little-noticed power boost: Now, not only is the
>long-feared FSB allowed to implement the spy technology and use
>it at will, but so are seven other federal security agencies,
>including the tax police and interior ministry police.
>
>The new SORM technology, opponents charge, allows security
>agencies to bypass the legal requirement to obtain a warrant
>before monitoring private correspondence, and will put an end
>to privacy and to the Internet as an instrument of democracy.
I only have 2 things to say about this ...
1. Who does this suprise? Russia has been run by bands of
criminals for most of this century.
2. At least Russia is more forthright about what it is doing
than the U.S. FEDGOV. Kinda says a lot I think.
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