Feds wire tapping the Internet?
 

Technology companies should be required to ensure that law enforcement agencies can install wiretaps on Internet traffic and new generations of digital communications, the Justice Department says.

Fearful that federal agents can't install wiretaps against criminals using the latest communications technologies, lawyers for the Justice Department, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration said their proposals "require immediate attention and resolution" by the Federal Communications Commission.

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I figured they were already doing this from years back....

? No?

They can monitor some of it I guess but probably not everything goes ...

they could do it.... but I Don't think it would hold up in court.... But the patriot act makes anything possible.


Whos gonna complain when they start going after people who surf child porn sites with thier snooping technology and the patriot act.... What happens when somone posts a link to somthing your government thinks you should not be looking at on GFY??

Damn, no more selling kilo's on AIM....

shhh they can hear ya tofu! time to get the cup and string out to talk to people

heh... I'd also like to add....


Guess who brings the most drugs into the country?
Hint: its a government agency.

You have to create the problem to justify big government and the destruction of the constitution.

What happens when people use those things for Industrial espionage...

There is more to life than porn...

too much ground to cover

may seem far fetched , but your not far off. Most people do deals thru YMEE Yahoo Mesenger Enterprise Edition ( fully encrypted messages )

Supposedly al-queda has been using it as well..

And , i know for a fact the u.s. goverment uses it to locate snipers in iraq by spy sattelite. They do the locating from virginia and then send instant messages to soldiers in the field in iraq, about positioning of snipers, teanks , etc..

I watched this one girl, must have been about 19 sitting in a trailer in virginia watching predator drone images and she spotted a sniper on a rooftop ( they even showed the footage ) , and she emailed the troops that were less than 100 yards from the snipers position and had him executed..

But as far as the "big brother" ideas, you also have to take into account the enormity of a project like that

Lets just assume they were using whats known as "keyword" traces, where if they pick up words like ANTHRAX , AL-QUEDA , NUCLEAR WEAPONS, BUY PLUTONIUM it starts recording what you say and send it to the f.b.i.

You would have to have literally billions and billions of humans to interpret the data recorded.

Way to large of a task. Im sure they have smaller more precise keyword type monitoring, but not on the scale that you would imagine.

Only an idiot would trust either the Yahoo or the AOL AIM encrypted chat to keep their conversations private.

If you are looking for that level of security, you are better off rolling your own crypto for applications like that.

There should be a law to protect privacy over the internet. They can't just tap in through private rooms.