FBI and Next-Gen P2P Monitoring 122
AHuxley writes "Can the FBI get funding to create a next-generation network monitoring and database system for P2P networks, web sites, and chat rooms?
Could the FBI's Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) network be opened to more law enforcement agents across the USA?
Will the tracking of p2p users via 'unique serial numbers' generated from a person's computer be expanded from its first use in late 2005?
Is your p2p application or plug-in sending back your MAC address, firmware revision, manufacture date, GUID or other details?" Could this story submitter pose any more questions in his submission? Won't someone please think of the ... oh, never mind.
Dupe? (Score:5, Informative)
Seriously though, how difficult is it to use the slashdot search engine with the capitalized words in the title? third hit... [slashdot.org]
Who cares? (Score:4, Informative)
sudo macchanger -r
I'm no computer scientist but isn't it fairly trivial for them to get your mac (or at least that of your router) from your network traffic anyway?
All Fear, No Facts (Score:4, Informative)
Answers (Score:4, Informative)
Yes
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CmdrTaco:
Yes
Hope that helps everyone.
Re:All Fear, No Facts (Score:3, Informative)
All the encryption really does is keep ISP's from throttling you unless they throttle all encrypted traffic (which some do).
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Informative)
Another 60 million per year. (Score:3, Informative)
Here's the actual bill. [loc.gov] $60 million per year. 15 cosponsors.
This is another piece of Bush Administration "security theater". Write to your representatives in Congress and your Senators to get them to put this money into fighting spam and computer crime.
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:FBI Sofware Projects are Notorious for Failures (Score:3, Informative)
Re:All Fear, No Facts (Score:3, Informative)