FCC To Require Backdoor Network Access for Feds

[Newby]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/06/2157202

I think it's a total invasion of privacy, but in the end is probably a good long-term strategy for the government. Heh.

What do you think?

[Ergot]

Yea, I'm totally boycotting the internet. Damn America.

[Sidoh]

That's really, really lame. -_-

[rabbit]

Havoc-loving-hackers' heaven.

[iago]

I'm boycotting the US.

That's why *BSD is developed in Canada: we don't have stupid laws about the Internet.

It's also why BSD's conventions are here: we don't have feds waiting for the European hackers to step off the plane and arrest them (remember that Adobe guy at DefCon a couple years ago?)

[zorm]

I much prefer it this way, atleast they won't cut the wrong wire and kill my internet while trying to wiretap someone! Something that really isn't mentioned if this is a physical backdoor which I suspect it is or a software one like the EFF article hints at.

This is one of the things that is better for everyone. They are going to tap these services anyways, might as well as make it so the feds don't have a chance of messing up the network. There was a case in my town where the FBI wiretapped a spy's home. The problem was that they did it wrong and created a buzzing in the neighbors phone so they knew something was up.

Also about the Adobe guy, see http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,55864,00.asp. He tried to sell illegal software here. Also note the end of the article

"I didn't have any interest in being at a place where people were being arrested," says Atkinson, whose organization helps companies develop countermeasures to combat surveillance devices. He believes Sklyarov was "exceedingly stupid" in his conduct.

"It would be the equivalent of Osama bin Laden coming to the U.S. He'd have to be out of his mind to attend a conference here when he knows he's doing something illegal," Atkinson says.