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motherface
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 Posted: 08/06/05 - 18:25 Post subject: FCC requires companies to build backdoors in routers
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| Quote: | FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design for Internet Services
Tech Mandates Force Companies to Build Backdoors into Broadband, VoIP
Washington, DC - Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a release announcing its new rule expanding the reach of the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The ruling is a reinterpretation of the scope of CALEA and will force Internet broadband providers and certain voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers to build backdoors into their networks that make it easier for law enforcement to wiretap them. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has argued against this expansion of CALEA in several rounds of comments to the FCC on its proposed rule.
CALEA, a law passed in the early 1990s, mandated that all telephone providers build tappability into their networks, but expressly ruled out information services like broadband. Under the new ruling from the FCC, this tappability now extends to Internet broadband providers as well.
Practically, what this means is that the government will be asking broadband providers - as well as companies that manufacture devices used for broadband communications – to build insecure backdoors into their networks, imperiling the privacy and security of citizens on the Internet. It also hobbles technical innovation by forcing companies involved in broadband to redesign their products to meet government requirements.
"Expanding CALEA to the Internet is contrary to the statute and is a fundamentally flawed public policy," said Kurt Opsahl, EFF staff attorney. "This misguided tech mandate endangers the privacy of innocent people, stifles innovation and risks the functionality of the Internet as a forum for free and open expression."
At the same time, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking airlines to build similar backdoors into the phone and data networks on airplanes. EFF and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) submitted joint comments to the FCC arguing against the DOJ's unprecedented and sweeping new technology design mandates and anticipatory wiretapping system.
The FCC's new proposal to expand CALEA to airline broadband illustrates the fallacy of law enforcement's rationale for its CALEA request. The DOJ takes the position that broadband has "substantially replaced" the local telephone exchange, but this claim is reduced to the point of absurdity aboard an airplane and opens the door for CALEA to cover just about anything.
Contact:
Kurt Opsahl
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
kurt@eff.org
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links
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/CALEA/FCC_voip_wiretaps.pdf
http://eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/CALEA
http://eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/CALEA/CDT_EFF_filing.pdf
http://www.askcalea.net/faqs.html
| Quote: | | "We WANT them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against.... We're after power and we mean it .... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one MAKES them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted--and you create a nation of law-breakers-- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." |
One more reason for everyone to use PGP for all communication.
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Aluaeia
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Posted: 08/06/05 - 18:45 Post subject:
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Callaren
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Nemo
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Silvermouse
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Posted: 08/07/05 - 02:43 Post subject:
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Eventually, there will be one father computer in some government hq which will monitor every single word you type into a search engine, and if you type in something like "bombs" or "****" it will run an auto-search of your hd for "questionable" materials. A few days/weeks later, an auditor might show up with a police officer to ask you things.
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Harkov
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Posted: 08/07/05 - 04:00 Post subject:
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Ok normally I don't care about whatever new thing the government is trying to do that "takes away our rights". This is kinda stupid though. Woulda been less of an impact if they never said anything about it, but for every FBI or whoever government person that can tap your internet phones or log your shit.. there are gunna be 100 people who can do it illegally from anywhere in the world the exact same way.
Got to be a smarter way of implementing this kinda thing imo.
I'd be fine with it if the can come up with a way that is a lil more secure that they would be the only ones looking at it. Trying to this thing on internet is just a tad more complex than saying the phone system which is a closed in box. Always something new with how internet changes and it's impossible to predict or police.
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khrath
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Posted: 08/07/05 - 05:50 Post subject:
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this is old news, i've known about it for over a year now.
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motherface
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How is a wiretap going to help them when the messages they intercept look like that? This law is useless; it's just one more step in the march to take away all our freedoms.
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khrath
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Posted: 08/07/05 - 15:47 Post subject:
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You don't seem to understand.
They are talking about the huge telco routers that companies like verizon, qwest, mci, etc own that provide strictly voip services. They aren't talking about your s****y little dsl router, or your teamspeak server.
Fact is most communication is moving to voip eventually because it's cheaper than standard lines, so yah, they're smart to insist on backdoors like they have to the telco switches.
It's not a 100% sollution by any means, but they already have the exact same thing on normal phones, and it would be dumb not to get the same with voip networks.
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Isriam
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Posted: 08/08/05 - 10:14 Post subject:
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like you cant tap your phone lines already? jesus christ. people will b***h about anything. Isn't VOIP a phone line anyway? It connects to land line switches doesn't it? Whats the problem?
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sinrakin
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Posted: 08/08/05 - 10:42 Post subject:
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I think the concern is that telco switches are pretty self-contained, so there's at least a reasonable probability that the snooping features they contain really can't be accessed by anyone without a court order. Routers, on the other hand, are by definition on the internet, and open to hacking attempts by everyone. It would be hard to guarantee privacy.
Also, this will raise the price of equipment and voice of IP services.
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Isriam
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Posted: 08/08/05 - 10:45 Post subject:
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I don't see how VOIP will be much cheaper than phone lines before long anyway. You still have to buy a shitload of trunks from the voip switch to landline switches and cell switches.
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sinrakin
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Posted: 08/08/05 - 10:58 Post subject:
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The shift to voip is probably inevitible, since there's no real point in maintaining a dichotomy between voice services and data services. Treating the voice as data can make better use of available bandwidth and make it easier to add advanced features. Phone switches are big, cumbersome, and take years/decades to add features to. We all ready have lots of data trunks and routers that can handle that data. Treating everything like data, whether it's email, web browsing, multiway voice, video or whatever allows the same infrastructure to be used for everything.
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Isriam
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Posted: 08/08/05 - 11:12 Post subject:
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yes but in a way phone systems are already all data. voip is getting big, but seriously nothing is better than cell.
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