Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day

Alien54 wrote with a link to a Wired blog entry noting that May 14th is the official deadline for internet service providers to modify their networks, and meet the FBI and FCC's new regulations. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act requires that everyone from cable services to Universities give them access, within certain parameters, to the usage habits of customers. "So, if you're a broadband provider (separately, some VOIP companies are covered too) ... Hurry! The deadline has already passed to file an FCC form 445, certifying that you're on schedule, or explaining why you're not. You can also find the 68-page official industry spec for internet surveillance here. It'll cost you $164.00 to download, but then you'll know exactly what format to use when delivering customer packets to federal or local law enforcement, including 'e-mail, instant messaging records, web-browsing information and other information sent or received through a user's broadband connection, including on-line banking activity.'"

Comments

Re:Limits on government

[nugneant]

Face it, in the US(and here in Canada, Liberal vs. Conservative, both equally useless parties), there aren't really any choices.

You're jaded, and I'm jaded as well. But at least I don't succumb to bullshit circular logic like "the only choices are the Dems and the Repubs, because third parties are worthless". There is a choice, it's just that most of the population is too busy trying to game the system ("a vote for green is a vote for red") and not busy enough actually voting with their hearts.

Clinton made it possible to deport terrorists to other countries where they could be tortured (see: Extraordinary rendition). Jimmy Carter was open to the possibility of re-newing the Draft. I'd sooner vote Green and suffer the sneers of hipster assholes than ever walk away from the voting booth having given my vote to a bullshit asshole.

More and more, I feel that the reason people react so snarkishly to the term "sheeple" is because it's a bit too offensive, a bit too on the mark. Really, I'd like to stop calling you Earnest Student Democrat folks "dumb shitheads", but as long as you continue to act like such, I can't help myself. After years of turbulent bickering amongst the left/liberal wing of politics, the greater percentage of American liberals tried the whole "smile and turn the other cheek" thing (i.e., "I understand that this guy is NOT PERFECT but I will VOTE FOR HIM ANYWAY because he is in all actuality BETTER THAN THAT OTHER SHITHEAD") in the 80s, and it got us eight years of Reagan, four years of Bush, and eight years of William "CDA / OH LORD THE CHILDREN / Extraordinary Rendition" Clinton. Fuck that shit - you're assholes, shitheads, and need to change the way you view the world, before you all choke to death on the noxious fumes of your elected leader-of-the-moment's horseshit.

HAND :)

Re:So glad I'm expat now...

[chuckymonkey]

Wow, tinfoil hat much?