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To: D. Long who wrote (62612)	12/21/2002 6:59:16 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) of 281500

The username you use to login to your ISP is meaningless to the IP address space - it isn't contained in any of the protocol headers... According to this Times article cited #reply-18359073, they're really after forcing ISP's to install government monitoring equipment on site and if this ever came to pass there would be no real way to even get on the net without being identified and traced. Not to mention Palladium and other initiatives being dreamed up to tag all computers of any type, ban sale of general purpose analog to digital converters (in the name of protecting Hollywood and the RIAA's content rights but it'll do wonders for privacy) etc. It's pretty hard for me to believe that such widespread monitoring would ever pass present judicial tests, though I suppose anything's possible especially if another major terrorist sucker punch hits the country. But if monitoring at the access points was done, I believe it's quite feasible on technical grounds to collect enough data to cause serious harm to privacy right there.

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