William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> writes:
Is this a good or a bad thing? I can remember back when there was a project in the 'states called Carnivore, and we had some American police -- I believe they were FBI -- come up and ask us politely if we'd like to put some of their machines on our network. Everybody pretty much uniformly said no. Shortly thereafter an American carrier showed up selling gigabit ethernet circuits to NYC for well below what was the going rate at the time and effectively pulled a lot of traffic that would otherwise have remained in country across the border.
More attributable to the unintended consequences of some of the more draconian parts of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003 than of Carnivore, actually. :) -r