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Flying the Wiretapped Skies

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-hear-what-i-hear dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The FBI is lobbying the FCC for the power to to quickly wiretap in-flight broadband services under CALEA. The feds are afraid terrorists will use the services to coordinate hijackings or remotely activate bombs, and they want to be able to interrupt or redirect a airplane's Internet access during a crisis, or to start sniffing packets within 10 minutes of identifying a suspicious passenger and getting court approval. Here is the FCC filing."

2 of 381 comments (clear)

  1. Re:If the terrorists want to kill you at 30k feet. by egypt_jimbob · · Score: 3, Informative

    section 217 is one of the applicable sections.

    EFF has a decent PATRIOT Act analysis. See especially heading 'cheif concerns' 1a.

    Thomas has a listing of most of the USA PATRIOT Act, though a few things are missing. Notably, section 217 linked above.

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  2. Re:If the terrorists want to kill you at 30k feet. by technoid_ · · Score: 3, Informative

    Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.

    Take a look at:
    http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=11054&c =130
    http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID =12263&c=206

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