1. vpn. Ok they’ve got bigass computers (and dumbass idiots running them i’m sure) to try and crack the encryption, but by the time that’s happened it’d probly be too late to do anything about what they discover.

2. Oh yeah sure, the fbi is gonna make sure no nasty bad guys hack these connections open and do bad things to the uni’s networks. Just like they’ve got their wonderful new computer system working so well!

3. The bad guys probly don’t go to american universities. I’m sure they’re not that stupid, and if they are, they deserve to get caught.

4. The fbi just wants to be able to check out all the cool stuff the uni students are downloading on p2p networks.

I’m betting number 4 is the real reason for this whole exercise in futility.

So where’s the cia and the homeland security dept in all this? Why aren’t they demanding similar access? Will they also get full access? Or are they gonna wait til the fbi’s setup is done, then demand their own extra setups as well?