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Fight The Power

Jul 24, 2000 12:14pm CST tags: Wack News
The man holding you down? You're not alone. Here are a couple of stories which should make it easy to funnel your hate towards the government and large corporations. Firstly, the US Government asked a dozen large ISPs to host their 'carnivore' machines a while back and now they are defending them. The boxes basically monitor net activity and spy on unknowing users. You gotta love this quote:

"The FBI's position is essentially, 'Trust us, we're the government,'"

On top of that, NSI (the people until recently who handled all domain name registrations) Appears to be holding on to domains as they expire and keeping other people from picking them up according to a few reports around the web. Supposedly this has been going on for a few months now. What are they gonna do with the domains? Well auction them of course. Great...

        

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