New rules sought for Internet wiretaps
Posted by configure on 15 March 2004 - 03:01 · 3 comments & 585 views
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#1 Posted by orphic on 15 Mar 2004 - 04:00
- So what happens when all of the criminals, terrorists, and spies start using snail mail again? Is the government going to require that the postal service allow them to read everyone's mail as well? This is getting ridiculous...
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#2 Posted by Gary_Player on 15 Mar 2004 - 09:43
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**** that, 1984 anyone?
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#3 Posted by Grappa on 15 Mar 2004 - 17:06
- Yeah, wiretaps are really effective against an encrypted conversation.
The push would effectively expand the scope of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, a 1994 law that requires the telecommunications industry to build into its products tools that U.S. investigators can use to eavesdrop on conversations with a court order.
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.
They called wiretaps "an invaluable and necessary tool for federal, state, and local law enforcement in their fight against criminals, terrorists, and spies."
"The ability of federal, state, and local law enforcement to carry out critical electronic surveillance is being compromised today," they wrote in legal papers filed with the FCC earlier this week. "Communications among surveillance targets are being lost.... These problems are real, not hypothetical."