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Paranoid Friday

Jul 07, 2000 8:23am CST tags: Wack News
It's a special paranoid Friday for you guys. Firstly just because they are my host, Verio aka NTT is being investigated by the FBI. They dont take very kindly to a Japanese company buying up a major US backbone provider.

...the inquiry is a response to FBI and Justice Department concerns that law-enforcement agencies maintain access to Verio's Internet backbone so that they can obtain wiretaps and serve subpoenas

On top of that, check this out from /. A start-up called Quova is pinging and tracerouting the entire Internet, causing firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems to go crazy, and some security-types to get mad, according to this story

        

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