Wiretapping innocent people on the Internet

The NYT covered this story, on the front page, too. But somehow itwas all about "Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems". It wasn't about the government automating the bugging of every student, professor, and staff person by typing a few commands from the basementof the FBI building. The nasty word "wiretap" didn't appear til the eighth paragraph, "below the fold", and when it did appear, it wasburied in mid-sentence, right next to "criminals, terrorists and spies". (They never wiretap "citizens", "innocent bystanders", or "suspects", and everyone wiretapped is of course guilty-as-charged,though they haven't been charged with any crime yet.)

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Declan McCullagh <http://us.f321.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=declan@well.com&YY=57577&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b> 26/10/2005 3:33 am

Dan Solove's note on NYT article:http://www.politechbot.com/2005/10/24/making-universities-pay/

Details on new lawsuit:http://www.politechbot.com/2005/10/24/wiretapping-rules-face/

-Declan

Subject: Re: [Politech] Wiretapping innocent people on the Internet
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:20:16 -0700
From: John Gilmore <http://us.f321.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=gnu@toad.com&YY=57577&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>

To: Declan McCullagh <http://us.f321.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=declan@well.com&YY=57577&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>, gnu@toad.com