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

$164

[mastershake_phd]

$164 to find out how to comply with the law? That cant be right. I suppose you could read the law they passed, but I hear most of congress doesnt even do that.

and..

[SQLz]

Using this technology, we'll be able to detect and weed out people who disagree with the current adminstration. That way, the US will be restored to its former glory.

encrypt all your traffic

[Anonymous Coward]

with the key 09 F9...

Monday

[suv4x4]

Hmmm... "Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day"... Quick, everybody tell their friends to perform cybercimes only Tuesday to Sunday.

We win again, government, MUAHAHAHAH!

Re:suggestion

[kanweg]

With one smoke cloud equivalent to one bit, it might not be as popular as one might think.

Bert
Who is considering encryption in the Navaho language

Re:Limits on government

[Lavene]

I hear you, but what can we do to really stop this? Submit more digg posts? Write our congressman? Protest at the FCC HQ? What can we do to really stop this? I'm all ears! Well, in the rest of the 'free' world we do it through something called an 'election'. We actually get to choose our government and thereby exercise a fair amount of control. If we want something really bad we can even involve our self directly by joining a political party or even start our own. The entire process is commonly known as 'democracy'.

You Americans should try it once... it's pretty cool actually.

Re:suggestion

[iminplaya]

Make ya think, at all?

Won't help. Tuesday is wiretap your brain stem day.

ah that explains it

[nanosquid]

My Internet connection went away for a couple of hours last night; they were probably installing something. Those fools thought nobody would notice at 3am!

Re:Limits on government

[Alsee]

You Americans should try it once... it's pretty cool actually.

Oh, we did try it once. We didn't think it nearly so cool as watching Paris Hilton go to jail for being a spoiled twit.

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Re:Limits on government

[Anonymous Coward]

Americans are told who to vote for by their TV sets. If any distressing thoughts occur to them, they get the proper pills to make those thoughts disappear.