• Report: US would make Internet wiretaps easier
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[Quote=AP] WASHINGTON — Broad new regulations being drafted by the Obama administration would make it easier for law enforcement and national security officials to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking Web sites and BlackBerries, The New York Times reported Monday. The newspaper said the White House plans to submit a bill next year that would require all online services that enable communications to be technically equipped to comply with a wiretap order. That would include providers of encrypted e-mail, such as BlackBerry, networking sites like Facebook and direct communication services like Skype. Federal law enforcement and national security officials say new the regulations are needed because terrorists and criminals are increasingly giving up their phones to communicate online. "We're talking about lawfully authorized intercepts," said FBI lawyer Valerie E. Caproni. "We're not talking about expanding authority. We're talking about preserving our ability to execute our existing authority in order to protect the public safety and national security." The White House plans to submit the proposed legislation to Congress next year. The new regulations would raise new questions about protecting people's privacy while balancing national security concerns. James Dempsey, the vice president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an Internet policy group, said the new regulations would have "huge implications." "They basically want to turn back the clock and make Internet services function the way that the telephone system used to function," he told the Times. The Times said the Obama proposal would likely include several requires: -Any service that provides encrypted messages must be capable of unscrambling them. -Any foreign communications providers that do business in the U.S. would have to have an office in the United States that's capable of providing intercepts. -Software developers of peer-to-peer communications services would be required to redesign their products to allow interception. The Times said that some privacy and technology advocates say the regulations would create weaknesses in the technology that hackers could more easily exploit. Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. [/Quote] Source: [URL]http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-lHgTNcpwpJ4fC_zPzYRtsuym0QD9IG95M80[/URL] The requirements are pretty retarded if you ask me. Nobody is going to play along with this.
god dam it
I doubt anything will come from this.
If the US tries this shit, they'll have a whole lot of superpowers to answer to, especially the EU, which is vehemently against the idea.
Nothing ever comes from anything.
[QUOTE=RayDark;25088044]Nothing ever comes from anything.[/QUOTE] then where do babies come from
[quote=article] -Software developers of peer-to-peer communications services would be required to redesign their products to allow interception. [/quote] Seems like they're trying to sneak something in here.
[QUOTE=Teddi Orange;25089191]Seems like they're trying to sneak something in here.[/QUOTE] This. Pure this.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;25088803]then where do babies come from[/QUOTE] Obviously Storks carry them all the way from Heaven to Earth.
[QUOTE=The golden;25089266]It so fun to sit here and watch the US government slowly pick away at it's citizens basic rights. Privacy? Haha, fuck that.[/QUOTE] Freedom of speech? Right to bare arms? Yeah, who needs that stuff!
Fucking lobbyists need to piss off and stop this shit already
If it passes, screw with the system just like when the Patriot Act was passed. Spam search terms that are "hot" on the FBI's list and see if they react.
[QUOTE=The golden;25089266]It so fun to sit here and watch the US government slowly pick away at it's citizens basic rights. Privacy? Haha, fuck that.[/QUOTE] Its so funny to watch people think they're talking our rights away. Because they're paranoid enough to think every little thing the government does on the internet is to control us. [editline]01:11PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Lone_Star94;25090102]If it passes, screw with the system just like when the Patriot Act was passed. Spam search terms that are "hot" on the FBI's list and see if they react.[/QUOTE] They're not going to react, this isn't about any of that. Do you guys actual rub two brain cells together or do let one yell "Herp!" and the other yells "DERP!"
Obama, didn't he say he was all for net neutrality and keeping the internet how it was? Maybe I was hallucinating. [quote] The Times said the Obama proposal would likely include several requires: -Any service that provides encrypted messages must be capable of unscrambling them. -Any foreign communications providers that do business in the U.S. would have to have an office in the United States that's capable of providing intercepts. -Software developers of peer-to-peer communications services would be required to redesign their products to allow interception.[/quote] -Fuck you AES, lets go hackers. All secure network connections will be compromised. -Like that'll happen. -Also, like that'll happen.
Hello Usenet, what's that? You don't give a shit? Wonderful!
Majority of the population are children and pre-teens. The US government wants to tap into e-mails? I say they deserve the spam of poorly written love-letters to Justin Beiber.
[QUOTE=Swilly;25090220]Its so funny to watch people think they're talking our rights away. Because they're paranoid enough to think every little thing the government does on the internet is to control us. [/QUOTE] This.
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