German Federal Government Approves Eavesdropping

Raymond Gannon writes: "Without further commotion, the Federal Cabinet approved the controversial telecommunication monitoring regulation in its session in Berlin today. The proceedings catalogue for eavesdropping on surfers and (cell) telephone users become legal."

Re:But seriously folks...

[Liquor]

Does this mean that if I want to remain hidden I just have to dial up? Isn't that just the tiniest of loop holes?

No, it means that they already have the right to put monitoring equipment on a subscribers dial-up phone line, so they don't need a new power.

Get over it? But the cost, the cost.....

[Liquor]

"You have no privacy. Get over it." -- Scott McNealy

I already presume that everything I send over the internet is monitored somewhere - as should we all. The difference here is really that anyone monitoring the internet now has to pay for and provide their own equipment.

The nasty part of this non-legislation (it's not passed by the German Federal Assembly) is that it puts the cost of the monitoring equipment onto the ISPs and providers - can you imagine trying to modify your backbone equipment so that all packets to or from a single IP address are copied to a log?

And they have the stated intention of "the surveillance of the complete Internet" - I simply cannot imagine the cost to an ISP of even starting to attempt to record the contents of every single packet that passes through their routers.

for the free world...

[hokanomono]

No doubt, the terrorists will succeed in destroying our society, but i'm not the first who said so.