Something to save

Saved in full, so I don’t have to dig through mail archives later, this Interesting People post:

From: Greg Brooks 
Date: July 8, 2006 1:45:57 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: RE: [IP] more on FBI plans new Net-tapping push
Reply-To: gregb@west-third.com

First they came for the big ISPs
and I did not speak out
because I used a little ISP and ran my own server.

Then they came for the telcos
and I did not speak out
because I used VoIP.

Then they came to my little ISP
and I did not speak out
because I could still encrypt some traffic and control my own firewall.

Then they came for my router
and there was no one left
to securely ping back to me.

(With a respectful nod to Pastor Martin Niemöller)