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Congress May Consider Mandatory ISP Snooping

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nosy-brother dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention a News.com story covering a most disquieting trend in the House of Representatives. From the article: "Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette's proposal says that any Internet service that 'enables users to access content' must permanently retain records that would permit police to identify each user. The records could not be discarded until at least one year after the user's account was closed. It's not clear whether that requirement would be limited only to e-mail providers and Internet providers such as DSL (digital subscriber line) or cable modem services. An expansive reading of DeGette's measure would require every Web site to retain those records."

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  1. Simple Solution by USSJoin · · Score: 5, Funny

    What, officer? No-- I run a highly unpopular website. Indeed, no one ever comes here. Can I prove it? Absolutely. You see, I keep extensive logs, and those logs clearly show that no one has ever been here.

    What's that you say-- that you went here? Well, I am sure that you accessed some other page, merely masquerading as my page. Those phishers, you know. Very sneaky.

  2. Two Words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Shea. Right.

    I ain't doing fuckin shit.

    Here's My logfile:

    06:10:00 Unauthorized User Successfully logged in as root
    06:10:01 Crontab - logs succesfully deleted
    06:10:10 Unauthorized User (Disconnected)