One can usually tell a story is important by the fact the mainstream media won't run it. The fact that this got published raises the question, what was the purpose. Perhaps the powers that be realized the War On Terror (Military Keynesianism fighting a made-up enemy) is so discredited in the public's eye already, it's time to switch to the War On Data Leaks (IT Keynesianism, fighting made-up leakers) to continue the economic stimulus?

Never presume ineptness where fraud fits the situation better. As evidence surfaces more and more how three-letter federal agencies actively partake in the drug business, (some even post blurbs blurbs about it on their web site) the War On Drugs seems to be not at all about protecting any potential user. It's about keeping the drugs expensive by keeping non-governmental traffickers out of the trade.

The law breaking the law: first paragraph of Laws, morals and flowers .

A network the government cannot block? Things will eventually come to one being needed. If one doesn't exist yet, the IT wizards should start creating one now.

The first question one thinks when some official claims, place X has a lot of hidden child porn is - OK, and how does *HE* know? If I need a file, that's on Usenet, I'll typically locate it in 5 minutes. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (or his counsel) must be a real determined pervert if he can find child porn on Usenet where even I saw no "major source" in my 20 years of normal, non-child-porn-seeking use. What I DO see all over the Usetnet these days is, however, are copies of Hustler's "Gov Love" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-LVfjhCiBE) - the porn movie about discredited ex-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's illegal trysts. So Cuomo's Usenet crusade seems to be less a moral effort, and more of a petty revenge.