Role of ISPs

[Michael Bacon]

I suggest investing in technologies that store unimaginable volumes of data
... or inventing them.  I'm off to register "infinitybits-R-us.com", float
on NASDAQ, and retire to a low tech country!

Michael (Streaky) Bacon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Laurie [mailto:ben@algroup.co.uk]
> Sent: 13 March 2000 20:48
> To: cyber-rights-UK@cyber-rights.org
> Cc: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Role of ISPs
> 
> 
> Nicholas Bohm wrote:
> > 
> > I understand that a DTI discussion forum on the EU 
> E-commerce Directive on
> > Monday 28 February 2000 was addressed by Margot 
> Froehlinger,  Head of Unit,
> > Internal Market, EC.
> > 
> > Among her remarks was that:
> > 
> > A consultation paper will be coming out later this year, from the
> > Commission, on the issue of cyber crime. Mrs. Froehlinger 
> mentioned the G8
> > meeting in Moscow last year where participating countries 
> agreed that ISPs
> > should be compelled to collect, and store, data which 
> passes through their
> > server.
> 
> Duh. So, I hear that at least one ISP is rolling out a 1.2 Tb/s
> transatlantic link this year. Where (and how) the hell do 
> these geniuses
> think that much data is going to be stored? And that's just
> transatlantic traffic!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben.
> 
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