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Time Warner To Comply With Wiretap Law
rekkanoryo writes "Time Warner Cable is taking steps to comply with the Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act, which requires telecommunications providers 'to help police conduct electronic surveilance.' Note that broadband providers are not yet required to comply with the law, but the FBI has stated its desire to force broadband providers under the law's jurisdiction. Invasion of privacy anyone?"
Invasion of privacy anyone?
Hurm... a quote from AskCALEA
"The law further defines the existing statutory obligation of telecommunications carriers to assist Law Enforcement in executing electronic surveillance pursuant to court order or other lawful authorization." (Emphasis mine)
Has pretty much the same restrictions as a phone tap, just applied to different media.
And you if think ** anything ** going across the internet is private you are quite mistaken.
I think it'd be pretty difficult or impossible (depending on what you do) to encrypt all internet transactions. Email should be pretty straightforward, but what do you do about HTTP, FTP, IRC, and all the other protocols which are completely built around unencrypted transmission? The best rule to go by, it seems, is: "If you don't want someone to read it, don't send/receive it".
That's what stunnel is for.
How is this insightful? Sure, the Canadian Recording Industry would love that, but there's no indication that the government is going to allow it (and if past behaviour is an indicator, the GC will probably just tell 'em to piss off), and all the ISPs in Canada, save one, are rejecting any attempts to open their records.
A governmental entity may obtain personally identifiable information concerning a cable subscriber pursuant to a court order only if, in the court proceeding relevant to such court order -
(1) such entity offers clear and convincing evidence that the subject of the information is reasonably suspected of engaging in criminal activity and that the information sought would be material evidence in the case; and
(2) the subject of the information is afforded the opportunity to appear and contest such entity's claim.This is stronger than the laws on wiretapping. This applies to both cable TV and "other services" provided by a cable TV operator.
If the cable operator owns its own ISP, then that ISP may also be subject to these restrictions.
The Canada that's working on abolishing anonymity on the net? That Canada?
/. reads anything. Here are the details for you, the "anonymity" that you are refering to, is regarding filesharing, and whether or not ISP's have to id their users (ever hear about anything like that in the US?). The Canadian version of RIAA is looking to file a bunch of suits on a bunch of people just like what happened long ago in the US (any of that sound familiar). In Canada, our laywers, and ISP's actually stood up and said "fuck you, our users are anonamous", something that your US ISP's just said "Oh sure, here are the names and addresses, plus a history of everything ever looked at". And so far, the legal system has yet to rule whether ISP's can be forced to release the info or not. My guess, is that without a department of homeland security to play the "Oh christ, I think Osama is downloading Koranic prayers from Kaza, we have to know who he is" card, that our courts will tell them to fuck off (yours didn't, remember, they handed over the info with barely a whimper). Especially since downloading is NOT A CRIME in Canada. To even get slightly looked at, you have to be an uploader. Apparently the legal argument is that just having a file available to upload, does not qualify as uploading (ie, having 10,000 files in your shared folder does not show that you upload), so unless the canadian version of RIAA can prove that you actually initiated the upload yourself (as opposed to someone requesting it from you), they can not prove a crime, and cannot request your identity.
Hey retard, have you read any of the stories on this topic? Of course not, cuz you are a tool, and no-one on
If you actually looked into any of the things that you have opinions on, you would probably be very shocked to find that Canada has much better (for the citizens, probably a total pain in the ass for the gov't) privacy laws than the US does. We are actually protected from our government prying into our private lives.
Well that's something that needs to be adressed that the law isn't being implimented properly. But anyone who reads the patriot act will note that all wiretaps still require court authority AND any taps under the PATRIOT act have to be part of an already ongoing investigation. Here are the relevant sections:
www.thebaka.com/rants/patriot
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Invasion of privacy anyone?
Use Freenet.
It's not a law, it's a proposed law. Doing a preemptive strike on privacy does not equate to lawful compliance.
just my sqrt(0.004) worth
Hmm, would that be Columbia, or Cuba?
There are two extremes in governmental interference. No control at all, and you're at the mercy of the bullies, whether they be big business, organized crime, or social pressure (maintaining the 'status quo'). Too much control, and you're at the mercy of the government, and you may not be able to tell the difference compared to the other extreme. But there's this medium, where government does those things that individuals can't do easily, like provide a police force, and maintain infrastructure. Stray too far from that medium, and that thing we call freedom disappears.
Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
Fifty bucks.
Perhaps PGP Freeware would fit the bill for the budget-minded slashdotter. (Also integrates with popular mail clients.)
For Mozilla Mail, there is Enigmail.
Beer wants to be free
Windows Privacy Tray and GnuPG Made Easy libraries. Works for me, except for a bug when I try to sign and encrypt at the same time ... the clipboard tools work for that.
The Ezine Directory
Go check here:
Farout Remailer stats/links
anon.efga.org
Freedom Project
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The law was passed in 1994, the same year as the election the Republicans won the Congress. The new Congress began in January 1995, after the law was passed.
Clairfying that fact does not mean I support the Republicans. I say a pox on both their houses.
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I lived in Holland for a year, and I never heard of anyone getting in trouble for selling americans (soft) drugs. Maybe, they would track somebody down for a bag of E or a bunch of coke though.
Holland is an amazing country and the Dutch rock. Furthermore, Kali Mist from the Dampkring and tweede Kamer rocks. Also, Nepalese hash rocks, so do mushrooms, raves in holland rock and Dutch girls really rock. Prostitution absolutely rocks and 10 dollar bicycles from junkies rock. Pretty canals and great bars and techno clubs also rock.
in short.
Rock!
I lived there and did not see any guns although about once a month I would see a crappy american car. Taxi drivers there drive mercedes. I saw two fights in the entire year I was there living in the 'ghetto' in the Bilmer area.
They don't need guns because all of the dickheads like you are stoned 24/7 in the Bulldog coffeeshops which is where all of the pussy american tourists go.
You'll fit right in there.