I would say that if the govt. has the capability to implement something like ECHELON, which monitors many different media (and more bandwidth intensive ones at that), then they definitely have the capability to implement FIDNET.
There is already a worldwide surveillance network in place called ECHELON. It's a cooperative effort between the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, & Australia.
For those interested, here is a link about the ECHELON Surveillance system that is used by the US, UK, Canada, Australia, & New Zealand(before some Kiwis blew the lid off it).
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I would say that if the govt. has the capability to implement something like ECHELON, which monitors many different media (and more bandwidth intensive ones at that), then they definitely have the capability to implement FIDNET.
There is already a worldwide surveillance network in place called ECHELON. It's a cooperative effort between the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, & Australia.
For those interested, here is a link about the ECHELON Surveillance system that is used by the US, UK, Canada, Australia, & New Zealand(before some Kiwis blew the lid off it).
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html