[TriLUG] Techno-Politics Talk on Trilug List (Was: FBI wants, blah, blah)

[Mike A. Salim]

Hi,

If I may chime in here ... granted there is a political aspect to this
debate, however there is a *strong* technical aspect as well, which is
well suited for this group, IMHO, at least to talk about.

The technical aspect is:  assuming that we ISPs are suddenly required to
never delete any logs, exactly how are we supposed to accumulate, store
and archive terabytes and terabytes of logs that a typical ISP might
generate in a month across tens or hundreds of servers, economically and
securely? HIPAA and privacy requirements in addition to this new
requirement would make life a challenge and require some innovative
technical solutions!

And this is apart from the political issue of who will pay for that
storage and technology which we do not need to address here.

Sincerely
Mike Salim


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Phillip Rhodes
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:42 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: [TriLUG] Techno-Politics Talk on Trilug List (Was: FBI wants,
blah,blah)

Matthew Lavigne wrote:
> OK, only going to reply to one of these but can we keep the political 
> BS and talking heads off the linux list?
I will risk making myself (even more) unpopular by saying that I don't 
mind these kinds of messages.  But that's just me.

However, it is clear that, historically speaking, the LUG list has not 
been a place for political discussions, even when
those discussions would likely be of interest to a large subset of the 
LUG list members.  OTOH, the Internetworkers
list seems to have a lot of overlap with the LUG list and political talk

is not uncommon there.  So I'll suggest that
if one wants to start a conversation on this topic, INW might be a 
better list.

Unless somebody thinks we need a whole new mailing list for this region,

to discuss "techno-politics" or whatever
you want to call it.  If anybody thinks such a thing would be useful, 
I'll volunteer to host it.

> I understand that this has privacy concerns but what do either of the 
> threads posted have to do with linux? 

Well, many ISPs use Linux, and some (many?) LUG members work for such 
ISPs?  There's always
been a strong bond between the "unix / linux world" and the "internet 
world." 


TTYL,

Phil

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