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FCC To Require Backdoor Network Access for Feds
humankind writes "The EFF is reporting that the Federal Communications Commission issued a release [pdf] announcing its new rule expanding the reach of the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)." From the article: "Practically, what this means is that the government will be asking broadband providers - as well as companies that manufacture devices used for broadband communications - to build insecure backdoors into their networks, imperiling the privacy and security of citizens on the Internet. It also hobbles technical innovation by forcing companies involved in broadband to redesign their products to meet government requirements."
We can't sit back and let the terrorists win.. err wait, wtf am I talking about? Somehow this is a good thing.. yes.. maybe I should give the feds access to my webcams, this will make america safer :)
Time to pull out that ethernet cord, I'm going back to PCBoard...
sike!
Think of the children! It's for fighting terrorists and will never be used otherwise!
Cisco, for example, has complied with this new rule before it even existed.
I hear the password is gonna be PENCIL... SHHH dont tell anyone.....
for more contraband. "Hey, buddy. Wanna buy a modem? Guaranteed secure. Only a thousand bucks. Buy two for eighteen hundred." This will turn our economy into a pure black market(I wish). Everything will be illegal. A pirate's paradise this will be. The hardware hackers have their work cut out for them. I hope they can handle it. Our new machines will be giant breadboards and wire wrap. All electronic engineers will be required to register. There will be a three day waiting period to buy soldering irons while they do a background check. God! what a bunch of freaks! And I'm not talking about the good kind...that hung out at the original Woodstock. You poor pitiful souls. Why do want to turn the earth into a prison planet? Never mind. I already know.
What?
that make me give thanks for living in a 3rd world country... I think.
At the very moment, the FBI is cursing under their breath as they change their passwords from "fbi/fbi" to something else.
DAMN YOU SANCHO!
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
They can put a backdoor on my OpenBSD box after they beat me to death with a cold, dead Model M keyboard. (Come to think of it... that would be easy to do.)
My other car is first.
New rules mandating($200 Mr. Bush) that all transmissions over TCP/IP(the now mandated internet protocol) be made in plain text. Any indecypherable info will be traced back to the source and the sender will be...umm...detained. In other news, the post office has now prohibited the use of envelopes, and all letters are to be written in English only. Any spelling and grammitical errors are subject to further investigation and may result in detention.
What?
Finding a dead Model M is _NOT_ an easy task.
You got the sides wrong, leftists don't rely on Constitution. Back to Montana, militiaman!