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More on Cisco Building Surveillance into Routers

Posted by michael on from the route-around-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The company recently published a proposal that describes how it plans to embed 'lawful interception' capability into its products. Among the highlights: Eavesdropping 'must be undetectable,' and multiple police agencies conducting simultaneous wiretaps must not learn of one another. If an Internet provider uses encryption to preserve its customers' privacy and has access to the encryption keys, it must turn over the intercepted communications to police in a descrambled form." See our earlier story and the RFC for background.

8 of 419 comments (clear)

  1. dang it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    crap! I thought I had fp here, but u loser beat me too it. crap. oh well, go ahead. mod me down. I feel better now

  2. Re:This makes me wet!! by Ratphace · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I am sure if you take the time visit your local rancher, he'll have something around his property to satisfy your urges. tksinfoyoroktksbye.

    Drive home safely!

  3. Sounds like time to ban an IP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Taco? Anyone home?

  4. Re:what about != U.S.A. ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe they'll switch to other brands. Great opportunity for other hardware makers.

  5. Re:This makes me wet!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Good one.

    Hell, I hate those stupid geeks, too.

  6. Re:what about != U.S.A. ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The sarcasm must have escaped the guy who modded this insightful. Else he'd have modded it funny.

  7. Re:This makes me wet!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That didn't make me hot. I fact, I think it's disgusting.

  8. Come on, Nobody disagrees with my moral views. by BoomerSooner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Christian, White, Male, 30 years old, $50K/year, Republican-Conservative.

    Except for these changes:
    Anti-Religion, Italian (close enough), Male, 29 years old, 180K/year (and rising), Democrat-Liberal.

    Guess I'll have to buy a few politicians.

    I live in a state where the people elect a Democratic Gov., Democratic Senate, Democratic House, and every national elected official is a Republican? How the fuck does that jive? If I hear one more dipshit say "I vote for the person, not the party." I'm going to lose it, these are the same people if you ask them 10 questions about the candidate they voted for they would be lucky to get more than 5 right (assuming they are true/false questions). Vote for the person my ass, more like vote for the better commercial.