Forwarded From: Pat Gray <eyeoferin@ukonline.co.uk>
Thought you might be interested in this:
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Subject: Resource: Russia Wants to Monitor The Net
I have now seen two articles on the Net about Russia's FSB security
agency, formerly the KGB, reportedly working to establish a "SORM" -- the
acronym for "system for ensuring investigative activity". This would force
all providers of Internet services to install a snooping device in their
main computers and build a dedicated information superhighway connecting
it with FSB.
The Russian secret police would be able to monitor, in real time, every
e-mail message and Web page sent or received by Russians...
The first article was back on July 21 at
<http://www.mercurycenter.com/breaking/headline2/065854.htm>.
Now a new one has appeared at
<http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9808/11/russia.big.brother/index.html?st.ne.fd.mnaw>
announcing a Russian web site, with information in Russian and some in
English, who is "fighting back".
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Regards
Pat Gray
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Received on Thu Aug 13 14:31:31 1998