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ISPs in Argentina Must Log Everything
hjf writes "According to a new presidential decree, and effective July 31, 2005, telecom carriers in Argentina will have to log every activity, including Internet chats, website visits, e-mails, phone calls, etc, made in Argentina. The data must be stored for 10 years, and must be available to the police and intelligence agencies within one hour, 24 hours a day. The telecom companies must pay for 'everything': software, hardware, and human resources, and will be required to use state-of-the-art technology as soon as it is available. This news was known already in specialized circles, but only yesterday it was published in major media. This is causing outrage among legislators and businessmen. Lawyers claim that it violates privacy laws and Constitutional rights (article 14), and the 'presumptive innocence principle' (innocent until proven guilty)." (The Fish comes in handy yet again.)
in other news every argentinan isp got fucked in the a**.
and downgraded every connection to 0.2kbyte/s in order to be able to comply.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Here's a log for ya:
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11 April 2005: (Email Traffic: Detected. Web Traffic: Detected. Chat Traffic: Detected.)
12 April 2005: (Email Traffic: Detected. Web Traffic: Detected. Chat Traffic: Detected.)
13 April 2005: (Email Traffic: Detected. Web Traffic: Detected. Chat Traffic: Detected.)
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The price for a dial-up account in Argentina just jumped to $3.99 for the first minute, and $1.99 for each additional minute.
`We see about 20-30% of our total world-wide production of hard drives being sent to Argentina in the immediate future to fullfill the needs of this decree. After all, a slow cable modem at 1 Mbps can download 10 GB of data per day. Multiply this by ten years and by the many many people in Argentina who have broadband access, and it's a lot of disks' --Some guy at Maxtor.
Does the ISP drive a truckload of mag tapes around to the Ministry of Information and say "Off you go chaps, analyse this!"
Easier way to drive them nuts. Create an application that creates a file containing completely random information. (I've done this before, it's easy and doesn't compress well). Set up a program to automatically send these files to a friend who then creates a new one and sends it back. Automate and repeat 24 hours a day on a broadband connection. Should rack up the TB real quick.
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
Silly Argentina. You can't just start out logging everything. Start off slow by relaxing the laws a little to combat something, lets say child porn. Wait a few years, add a couple laws for terrorism and walla, you can do whatever you want.
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