New FBI division being set up to intercept and tap into Internet services. - Polidicks

[quote][B]FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit[/B] CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications. The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications. The establishment of the Quantico, Va.-based unit, which is also staffed by agents from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Agency, is a response to technological developments that FBI officials believe outpace law enforcement's ability to listen in on private communications. While the FBI has been tight-lipped about the creation of its Domestic Communications Assistance Center, or DCAC -- it declined to respond to requests made two days ago about who's running it, for instance -- CNET has pieced together information about its operations through interviews and a review of internal government documents. DCAC's mandate is broad, covering everything from trying to intercept and decode Skype conversations to building custom wiretap hardware or analyzing the gigabytes of data that a wireless provider or social network might turn over in response to a court order. It's also designed to serve as a kind of surveillance help desk for state, local, and other federal police. The center represents the technological component of the bureau's "Going Dark" Internet wiretapping push, which was allocated $54 million by a Senate committee last month. The legal component is no less important: as CNET reported on May 4, the FBI wants Internet companies not to oppose a proposed law that would require social-networks and providers of VoIP, instant messaging, and Web e-mail to build in backdoors for government surveillance. During an appearance last year on Capitol Hill, then-FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni referred in passing, without elaboration, to "individually tailored" surveillance solutions and "very sophisticated criminals." Caproni said that new laws targeting social networks and voice over Internet Protocol conversations were required because "individually tailored solutions have to be the exception and not the rule." Caproni was referring to the DCAC's charge of creating customized surveillance technologies aimed at a specific individual or company, according to a person familiar with the FBI's efforts in this area. [/quote] Read more about it in the source: [url]http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57439734-83/fbi-quietly-forms-secretive-net-surveillance-unit/[/url] My first news post, so be gentle :v:

This can't be legal.

[QUOTE=TheJoker;36075921]This can't be legal.[/QUOTE] you've gotta stop dem terrorists and those dangerous internet pirates

[QUOTE=Reds;36075926]you've gotta stop dem terrorists and those dangerous internet pirates[/QUOTE] I feel safer already

[QUOTE=TheJoker;36075921]This can't be legal.[/QUOTE] Welcome to post-USAPATRIOT America.

[QUOTE=TheJoker;36075921]This can't be legal.[/QUOTE] the government doesn't give a fuck about what's 'legal'

Sucks to be you America.

SSH tunnel time!

I can understand why they're doing this (criminals use the internet as well), but it still seems draconian.

Oh dear god no. How would i ever safely commit credit card fraud again?

[QUOTE=gt118;36076289]Sucks to be you America.[/QUOTE] Yes. Yes it does. Get me outta here.

[QUOTE=inconspicious;36076383]SSH tunnel time![/QUOTE] Suspicious activity, here's warrant to bust your door

If it's so secret then why the hell is it in the news HMM? Guess they're bad at hiding things. [QUOTE=Fourm Shark;36076275]America: NKorea 2.0[/QUOTE] NK is a trillion times worse. Are you serious?

[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;36076275]America: NKorea 2.0[/QUOTE] Lol it's funny because North Korea has no internet.

[QUOTE=King Tiger;36077439]Lol it's funny because North Korea has no internet.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.korea-dpr.com/[/url] You know NOTHING of the glorious people's republic.

This violates the constitution on all levels.

[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;36077491]This violates the constitution on all levels.[/QUOTE] Funny, because the constitution seems to mean jack shit to higher people. Last I heard of your rights, you're allowed to keep your ISP and your own internet private, unless there is a really keen fidelity in your searching, which would be granted a warrant, then a spying on you, then if there is sufficient evidence, arrest you and interrogation. That's probably the process that goes on here. I don't want too find out.

If they're trying to track "very sophisticated criminals," they're wasting their time spying on my skype calls. The really serious guys have probably long since gone to ground in TOR.

Looks like i'm gonna have to create a new goverment in antarctia But even then the retarded ass goverment is gonna come and take it over so they can look all high and mighty [editline]24th May 2012[/editline] ......what? Can't a man dream of a badass under-ice goverment?

Please just be a scare tactic

I would think they already had something like this installed :v:

The NSA already does this.

[QUOTE=GameDev;36077664]Please just be a scare tactic[/QUOTE] Lol it's america, they'll want to catch those non existant terrorizers

I would hope the internet is too vast for them to really be eavesdropping on normal citizens, unless they set up a system to search for specific key phrases. I guess if you want to say "America is the bomb!" you should get it out of your system now before you are whisked away in the night for a thought crime.

we should create our own government, with blackjack, and hookers

[QUOTE=Cone;36077726]we should create our own government, with blackjack, and hookers[/QUOTE] Actually, forget the government

[QUOTE=Cone;36077726]we should create our own government, with blackjack, and hookers[/QUOTE] In antarctica, under the ice......and me as tha prezodent

[QUOTE=Frostypunch;36077733]In antarctica, under the ice......and me as tha prezodent[/QUOTE] there is actually a reasonably sized ice island near the north pole that we could probably buy if we pooled our money come on guys were makin this happen

[QUOTE=Frostypunch;36077733]In antarctica, under the ice......and me as tha prezodent[/QUOTE] It's either gary or postal. Unless you have a hot ass

[QUOTE=Cone;36077752]there is actually a reasonably sized ice island near the north pole that we could probably buy if we pooled our money come on guys were makin this happen[/QUOTE] Well if it does happen don't make me president, i'd be extremely terrible However if there's gonna be a SWAT like group then i want in [editline]24th May 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=AceOfDivine;36077756]It's either gary or postal. Unless you have a hot ass[/QUOTE] There's yo president's