FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites — Now

TheGift73 writes with news that the FBI is pushing a proposal to update old wiretap legislation so that modern web firms would be forced to build in backdoors to facilitate government surveillance. Quoting CNET: "In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators, senior FBI officials argue the dramatic shift in communication from the telephone system to the Internet has made it far more difficult for agents to wiretap Americans suspected of illegal activities, CNET has learned. The FBI general counsel's office has drafted a proposed law that the bureau claims is the best solution: requiring that social-networking Web sites and providers of VoIP, instant messaging, and Web e-mail alter their code to ensure their products are wiretap-friendly. ... The FBI's proposal would amend a 1994 law, called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, that currently applies only to telecommunications providers, not Web companies. The Federal Communications Commission extended CALEA in 2004 to apply to broadband networks."

Re:Time to move.

[CodeHxr]

Are you implying that you don't want to be snooped on because you have something to hide?

Re:Oh... yeah...

[doston]

Because we don't have enough problems with crackers already!

This just adds a little salt to that cracker.

Coming soon...

[netwarerip]

The Wired Elemental Routine Executable Federal Unlawful Collection Kernel Encryption Datagram

Dear FBI

[Sarten-X]

Dearest agents of the FBI,

It should please you to know that all of my websites are already amenable to wiretapping, and my networks are all designed to allow you to insert your sniffer wherever you want. Please do note, however, that most of my internal support services communicate via the pDonkey protocol, where all data is encoded as a series of pictures of donkeys copulating.

It will be left to you to decode messages transmitted in this manner, as the protocol is intended to send a clear message to any eavesdro[ppers on our secure systems. The message is "Fuck you, jackass".

Sincerely,

Sarten X

Re:Time to move.

[morcego]

I have lots to hide. Just because it is not illegal, unethical, or immoral does not mean I do not want to hide it.

  I am also do not want to spend my time complying with this kind of regulation.

I'm not sure about illegal or unethical, but man do I have immoral things to hide ...

Re:Time to move.

[Orga]

</sarcasm> is not valid html.