FBI Adds to Wiretap Wish List

WorkEmail writes "A far-reaching proposal from the FBI, made public Friday, would require all broadband Internet providers, including cable modem and DSL companies, to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police. The FBI's request to the Federal Communications Commission aims to give police ready access to any form of Internet-based communications. If approved as drafted, the proposal could dramatically expand the scope of the agency's wiretap powers, raise costs for cable broadband companies and complicate Internet product development."

Re:Money Power Politicss

[discogravy]

no, because it's not a word. you're looking for the word viola (there's supposed to be an accent on the A at the end; which would make it different from the instrument. it's italian I think.)

In all my communication...

[SisyphusShrugged]

All my commmunication will have to have GW is Double-Plus Good as the header :) Using words such as Terrorism, Nader for President, and Same-Sex Marriage will merit an immediate termination.

Listening in on X-Box Live?

[letdownjournals]

Legal experts said the 85-page filing includes language that could be interpreted as forcing companies to build back doors into everything from instant messaging and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) programs to Microsoft's Xbox Live game service.

To avoid any potentially deadly misunderstandings, I'd advise you not to play a Counter-Strike "terrorist."

1984

[aixou]

Some visionary should write a book about a future dystopia and call it 2040. Then Apple can come out with a cool new commercial in 2040, with a dubbed over voice saying, "god damn it. it's happened.", and have a gunshot fire with the sound of a body falling to the ground. right?

Vacancies at the FBI:

[eltaDciraD]

The FBI seeks to appoint a senior AOL linguist. The successful candidate will form a 1337 team able to translate AOL to American English in real-time as part of a stimulating new FBI initiative...

Re:Screw you, government! You pay for the upgrades

[Felinoid]

Next they'll bill the suspect for being investigated and failing to produce justification for an arrest warent.
Improves law enforcment and cuts the budget.. What could be wrong?

Oh right.. paying for being innocent.

Re:Civil Protest

[velo_mike]

everyone should download anything and everything they can think of. Delete it when it is done and then initiate a new down load

Similar concept but I think everything should be encrypted. Notes to mom, grocery list to the s.o., plans for laser beams mounted on fricken sharks, encrypt it. Fuck em, let em spend a ton of money decrypting a note to my g.f. asking to pick up drycleaning... Overload the system.

There is only one way to oppose this....

[3seas]

We all need to install internet cameras in our tolits...with a direct feed to the FBI.

Re:Money Power Politicss

[Anonymous Coward]

It's funny to see one of these incorrect corrections.

Everyone else has fixed your error, I'm just here to laugh at you.

A Week?!

[Greyfox]

You must work in the IT industry. I've seen the amount of thought that gets put into security for any given project. If any consideration at all is made, it's usually something stupid that doesn't actually address real security at all. Along the lines of "Oh no one would ever think to exploit that huge flaw over there and fixing that would be hard!" Let's just put a band-aid over here instead and everyone will think our product is secure!

I give it 37 minutes. Tops.

Let them a go, but fuck'em

[Pig Hogger]

The solution? Flood'em.

Diplomatic communications between embassies and the homeland are encrypted. And to make sure they're not vulnerable to decryption, information is continuously transferred. However, when there is no information to be transmitted, random garbage is sent.

So, what we need to do is to flood the Internet with random garbage; let the FBI sift through that!!!

Oh, wait! This system already exists: it's called USENET!!!!

Re:Screw you, government! You pay for the upgrades

[drooling-dog]

since the FBI is funded with everyone American's dollars.

That may have been true a few years ago, but fortunately we now have an administration with the will and wisdom to make our children and grandchildren pay instead. So live it up and just hope you die before the bill shows up!

in other news....

[Anonymous Coward]

"A far-reaching proposal from the FBI, made public Friday, would require all American citizens, including anyone who has visited or can spell America, to rewire their assholes to support easy probing by police.

Re:Stock Tip

[cperciva]

Okay, so if myself, 997 other innocent users and two criminals are all connected to a single IM server, and all are encrypting their traffic, then which two users are the criminals?

The people running the IM server, of course. Only terrorists encrypt their traffic, and if you're not with us, you're against us.