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Politics : Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator from New York? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (772)	8/4/1999 4:27:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3389

In that single point I agree to Starduster. Most of the selection work can be done automatically. The technology is implemented in internet search-engines, that rate pages according to relevance. It is straight-forward to pu the same watchdogs on the flowing information. With accumulation of information over several days very specific profiles for any chosen user can be made automatically. It is also clear that there is interest in further development of the technology. This is not only interesting for intelligence services, but also for the industry. Microsoft has already a court history concerning that practice, and also the current MS-AOL cause is partly touched by the issue. The alleged interest can also be corroborated from this facts: Last week the new IP version 6 standard was codified, and given the previous thoughts, it wasn't a great surprise that it contained exact adressing capability for each packet of information. It means that for every bit of information passed through the internet the actual hardware that sent it can be identified at any time. This means that user-identification is even better than in the fixed phone net. Techno-historically it was a big surprise, because that information wasn't included ever before. The nice point is that for those, who haven't got direct IP connection, but like most private users including you, dial in, the hardware code points to the ISP hardware, not the end-user. Be sure that technical problem will be overcome. Intelligence would only need some grip on the providers, which are fairly central compared to the total number of internet users. And industry can have this information access even easier, for money. On top of that providers have an interest to identify their users and the users' interests of their own. CIA (and the KGB's follow-up along with other European agencies) will have a special interest in both of us, e.g. you are a maker, shaper and amplifier of opinions, and you are in some sense near to a center of power. Why do you think Amercian politics (along with echoes in Europe) is having such a big interest in banning of cryptological soft- and hardware? Not to fight organized crime. Those are rich enough to employ their own crypto-technology. Regards MNI.