MIB.altavista.com really was spooks?

[Brett_Tabke]

remember the jokes we made about MIB.AltaVist.com being Men-in-black that came in the black helicopters?

Turns out - the jokes were right.
[wired.com...]

Mae West is one of two key internet nodal points in the United States (the other, Mae East, is in Vienna, Virginia). It's not just WorldNet customers who are being spied on -- it's the entire internet.

[bcolflesh]

Sickening - most ISPs are doing the same thing with email via the FBI's Carnivore/DCS1000 program, so more illegal acts perpetrated against US citizens is hardly surprising.

[Syzygy]

cf: Project Echelon [en.wikipedia.org]

Syzygy