Oasis Forms "Lawful Intercept" XML Committee

An anonymous reader writes "Oasis has announced the formation of the Lawful Intercept XML Technical Committee. The announcement refers to it as a "universal global framework for supporting rapid discovery and sharing of suspected criminal and terrorist evidence by law enforcement agencies." It's not really clear if this is supposed to aid in information exchange about suspicious activities/individuals, or 'intercepting' in the sense of eavesdropping, or what exactly."

Comments

Gallagher Brothers

[TheVidiot]

I had no idea Liam and Noel were XML literate. THAT'S why you can't understand Noel... he hasn't released his DTD.

Re:Gallagher Brothers

[perky]

THAT'S why you can't understand Noel... he hasn't released his DTD.
nah. It's 'cos he's a scabby manc.

What does this mean?

[Big Mark]

Lawful Intercept XML Technical Committee.

Aha! Your use of non-valid XML is in breach of the DMCA! Your entire possessions are to be seized and you will be shipped off to Guatameno Bay!

-Mark

Re:What does this mean?

[Kragg]

Because mayyyybeeeeee I don't really wanna clooose,
My opening taaaaags,
Cos my tag contents are null.

Maybe I parse on the fly,
The DOM overhead's too high,
Maybe I can't interleave,
Elements with Xerces 3,

My document is gonna live foreeeevvvvaaaaa...

Re:What does this mean?

[EpsCylonB]

You didn't use the word "fookin" or the phrase "mad fer it", othewrwise I would of modded you up.

Terrorist using XML?

[godIsaDJ]

So now terrorists are supposed to use valid XML (with respect to the approved Bin Laden DTD) to arrange bombings and the such. This is a natural step forward since XML is easier to parse and to detect by law enforcement agencies... This IS a joke, right?

Re:Terrorist using XML?

[Anonymous Coward]

Bin Laden doesn't use a DTD, because he's such a Schemer...

Sorry, had to do it.

Lawyers and XML

[mmoncur]

It appears that when you combine lawyers and XML you end up with a linguistic quagmire that is completely impossible for mere mortals to comprehend, or escape from.

P2P

[giel]

Why don't they simply download Kazaa? It has been proven to be very usefull for sharing all kinds of information, no matter where and how one got it.

XML - the criminal's choice

[alext]

...we predict a resurgence of interest in CSV files among diabolical masterminds everywhere.

Just wondering whether this really has anything to do with XML... if so, should it? Not sure when a data structure last had its own universal global framework for supporting rapid discovery and sharing of suspected criminal and terrorist evidence by law enforcement agencies but I suppose this counts as progress of a kind, though personally I think I'd sleep better if the authorities kept an eye on all manifestations of Directed Acyclic Graphs.

Re:Hey kids!

[David Gerard]

tcpdump or sniff and hand them a tape ;-)

Diety?

[gazbo]

Are they Gods that desparately need to lose weight?

Lawful Interception only?

[Qzukk]

I suppose there will be a click through agreement:

"I agree not to use this technology to spy on CEOs to determine when to sell my stock. I also agree not to use this technology to spy on my SO, neighbors, or to get juicy blackmail bits on the person who cut me off this morning on the way to work."

Of course, with the FBI's proven track record, they'll just hit I Agree and do it anyway.

Just think... 9/11 could've been prevented

[Aexia]

if the FBI and CIA had the authority to intercept e-mails using the [terrorist] XML tag.

Curse you liberals and your "bill of rights"! How many more people have to die before you let go of your precious "freedoms"?