[ale] Well isn't this special

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 18:16:44 EDT 2010


On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> I must admit to being surprised this came from the Obama admin and not
> from the Bush one.
>

It came from the Justice Dept. Given the trend of that dept over the last 20
years, it doesn't matter who the top person is. There was a squawk during W
for more access to comms data - they built it at used it at ATT and others
without legal permission. This is just the "legal" framework to bring it out
in the open.

>
> I already assume all unencrypted Internet activity can be monitored,
> but I also assume encryption can be used to protect communications.
>
> One article I read said the gov't request is to also have a way to
> access encrypted communications.
>
> Does anyone know what that's about?  If I encrypt something before it
> leaves my computer, how are they planning to wiretap that?
>

It seems aimed at encrypted services like crackberry email. But I'm sure
that will get expanded into _all_ encrypted protocols (https, TLS, VPN
technologies, etc).

>
> Greg
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Watson, Keith <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu>
> wrote:
> > At first I thought it was a hoax or April Fools joke. It's not.
> >
> > Government Seeks Back Door Into All Our Communications
> > http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/government-seeks
> >
> > U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html
> >
> > keith
> >
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