27 Sep 2010, 9:08 pm
WTF?
Report: US would make Internet wiretaps easier
The AP wrote:
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. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Bold is mine.
Seriously, I thought it was one thing when the middle eastern countries were making a stink about not being able to eavesdrop on Blackberries, but I thought that sort of thing was supposed to be on the way out over here. That's why I used the bold, to point out that this isn't some sort of Bush era holdover plan, this is original to the Obama administration. I guess I wasn't that surprised when Obama changed his mind about some of the Bush homeland security GWOT stuff, it's political dynamite after all, but I also wasn't expecting him to expand on it like this. Now I'm going to need to dig up Osama's Blackberry number so I can text him obscene messages encrypted with one time pads, eat up all NSA's computer time trying to break them sh*ts.
27 Sep 2010, 9:15 pm
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27 Sep 2010, 9:43 pm
Like I said before: he's the same as Bush, just not officially labeled republican. The only reason why I end up defending him here as much as I do is because criticizing about the wrong things is worthless because blindly toting the party line and propaganda is worthless.
He's also not against burning books.
http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/09/25/books.d ... index.html
I didn't realize that the government could post-facto censor stuff that they realized they actually wanted classified but still allowed into the public sector (doesn't this basically fall under the same thing as trade secrets?).
Nazis burning books. Good thing wikileaks secured a first printing. 
27 Sep 2010, 9:46 pm
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28 Sep 2010, 6:26 am
Dox47 wrote:
WTF?
Seriously, I thought it was one thing when the middle eastern countries were making a stink about not being able to eavesdrop on Blackberries, but I thought that sort of thing was supposed to be on the way out over here. That's why I used the bold, to point out that this isn't some sort of Bush era holdover plan, this is original to the Obama administration. I guess I wasn't that surprised when Obama changed his mind about some of the Bush homeland security GWOT stuff, it's political dynamite after all, but I also wasn't expecting him to expand on it like this. Now I'm going to need to dig up Osama's Blackberry number so I can text him obscene messages encrypted with one time pads, eat up all NSA's computer time trying to break them sh*ts.
Seriously, I thought it was one thing when the middle eastern countries were making a stink about not being able to eavesdrop on Blackberries, but I thought that sort of thing was supposed to be on the way out over here. That's why I used the bold, to point out that this isn't some sort of Bush era holdover plan, this is original to the Obama administration. I guess I wasn't that surprised when Obama changed his mind about some of the Bush homeland security GWOT stuff, it's political dynamite after all, but I also wasn't expecting him to expand on it like this. Now I'm going to need to dig up Osama's Blackberry number so I can text him obscene messages encrypted with one time pads, eat up all NSA's computer time trying to break them sh*ts.
Obama and his buddies clearly exhibit their fascist tendencies. They are no friends to your liberty or mine. Tell me, are you surprised? This tendency has been evolving since the time of Abraham Lincoln and has accelerated since the time of FDR. The U.S. now practices fascism with a friendly face. They don't put you an a concentration camp. They just regulate you to distraction.
ruveyn
28 Sep 2010, 6:50 am
ruveyn wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
WTF?
Seriously, I thought it was one thing when the middle eastern countries were making a stink about not being able to eavesdrop on Blackberries, but I thought that sort of thing was supposed to be on the way out over here. That's why I used the bold, to point out that this isn't some sort of Bush era holdover plan, this is original to the Obama administration. I guess I wasn't that surprised when Obama changed his mind about some of the Bush homeland security GWOT stuff, it's political dynamite after all, but I also wasn't expecting him to expand on it like this. Now I'm going to need to dig up Osama's Blackberry number so I can text him obscene messages encrypted with one time pads, eat up all NSA's computer time trying to break them sh*ts.
Seriously, I thought it was one thing when the middle eastern countries were making a stink about not being able to eavesdrop on Blackberries, but I thought that sort of thing was supposed to be on the way out over here. That's why I used the bold, to point out that this isn't some sort of Bush era holdover plan, this is original to the Obama administration. I guess I wasn't that surprised when Obama changed his mind about some of the Bush homeland security GWOT stuff, it's political dynamite after all, but I also wasn't expecting him to expand on it like this. Now I'm going to need to dig up Osama's Blackberry number so I can text him obscene messages encrypted with one time pads, eat up all NSA's computer time trying to break them sh*ts.
Obama and his buddies clearly exhibit their fascist tendencies. They are no friends to your liberty or mine. Tell me, are you surprised? This tendency has been evolving since the time of Abraham Lincoln and has accelerated since the time of FDR. The U.S. now practices fascism with a friendly face. They don't put you an a concentration camp. They just regulate you to distraction.
ruveyn
It's worse than that. See http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs09272010.html
28 Sep 2010, 7:03 am
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