On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 12:44 , Bill Cunningham wrote: > Yes keeping the government out of the internet is a tremendous task. We > will > continue to have governments until we no longer need them. That's my > view. > My personal chief concern right now is if they begin taxing products > bought > and sold over the net. This thing the FBI is rumored to have a carnivore > box. The FBI talked at some length about their carnivore box at NANOG 20 in October 2000: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0010/real/carnivore.ram so I'm not sure "rumour" is the right word. > Do the ISP's have to let them hook them up to this thing? Joe