Russia may force ISPs to tip Big Brother

Tasty Bits from the Technology Front, 1998, June 29
In Russia, one of the inheritor agencies of the KGB is preparing a law that would require ISPs to enable surreptitious monitoring of all Internet traffic without a court order. The Federal Security Service (FSB) wants to force ISPs to install -- possibly at their own expense -- equipment and bandwidth at least equal to that used for their commercial services, with a data channel leading directly to an FSB outpost.