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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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