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U.S. Proposes Centralized Internet Surveillance

Posted by michael on from the one-NOC-to-rule-them-all dept.

Mr.Intel writes "The Times is reporting that President Bush is 'planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users.' The recommendation is part of a report entitled 'The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace'. It is due to be published early next year."

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  1. Re:great news!! by boaworm · · Score: 3, Offtopic
    As far as I know, Canada is also a part of the "Internet", and the article states that the whole of internet will be monitored. Wonder how they gonna persuade Irak and Iran to send such data to Bush though ;-)

    And.. it is going to be a huge amount of data... realtime monitoring of all peer2peer traffic etc.. Sounds like they need a big budget =)

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  2. Don't you get it? by clary · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Anonymous coward wasn't signing his note "Bill." He was replying to Bill (Queelix).

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  3. Re:America.... by ronfar · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Anyone read the news about the hundreds of Iranians and other arabs jailed in southern california?

    Do you have a link to this?

    Here's an interesting story about Gulf War I:

    Into Temptation

    He snorted, and took a gulp. "It was just about that easy. The fighting part, I mean - after we'd bombed the daylights out of them for months, then shelled them for more than 24 hours. We barely had to show up for those guys to throw down their guns and beg us to take them captive." My friend shook his head and looked away. "I wish we could have."

    He took a deep breath, and waved for another beer. "After so many thousands of prisoners, the order came down that it was endangering our men to capture any more. There were so many at once - it seemed like a trick. So we called in the bulldozers." No one knows how many of those soldiers were trying to surrender, since U.S. forces stopped offering them the opportunity, as the Pentagon has admitted.

    My friend, the veteran, shoved his empty glass away. "I had to give the order, order men who drove the earth-movers to just cover up the trenches. To bury those poor bastards alive."

    "Try telling that in confession," he continued. Before he enlisted, he'd himself been a seminarian. "I had to. I said to the priest 'I buried hundreds of men alive.' And I told him why - how if I'd disobeyed orders I should have been shot for insubordination on the battlefield.

    He didn't know what to say." The priest asked if he was sorry, and my friend said he sure was. He gave the soldier absolution.

    I asked him if he would do anything like that again. He said, "Not unless they order me to." Then he waved for another drink. "That's war."

    Yep, we're living in Mordor...
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  4. Re:Thanks, Bush! by jmenezes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Your marking Anonymous Coward a friend?

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  5. Re:Thanks, Bush! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Your marking Anonymous Coward a friend? Well, I tried!

    Hell, youse ALL my friends!

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  6. Re:Thanks, Bush! by Rakarra · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    So do we get to watch Bush and Ashcroft, too?

    No, of course not. Heck, they've been fighting tooth and nail to prevent information about their little energy meetings from being released to the American public.