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News Burst: Jam echelon day "pointless" - think tank

The UK's most prominent Internet think-tank, The foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), has branded a plan to overload an international email monitoring system as "pointless".

Written by Will Knight, Contributor Oct. 12, 1999 at 4:14 a.m. PT

The "Jam Echelon protest", scheduled to take place on October 22, is designed to bring down a US email monitoring system called "Echelon".

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