FBI and Next-Gen P2P Monitoring

AHuxley writes "Can the FBI get funding to create a next-generation network monitoring and database system for P2P networks, web sites, and chat rooms? Could the FBI's Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) network be opened to more law enforcement agents across the USA? Will the tracking of p2p users via 'unique serial numbers' generated from a person's computer be expanded from its first use in late 2005? Is your p2p application or plug-in sending back your MAC address, firmware revision, manufacture date, GUID or other details?" Could this story submitter pose any more questions in his submission? Won't someone please think of the ... oh, never mind.

Comments

Re:And whoever is doing the monitoring

[johndmann]

No one will be doing the monitoring, it will all be filtered using keywords, byte patterns, and so on - much like Echelon.

Re:All Fear, No Facts

[hairyfeet]

Let's face it, we all need to publicize this as what it is: a witch hunt and a power grab. Folks see the words "child porn" and automatically think of the sick bastard that rapes an 8 year old. What they don't realize and what we need to be telling our friends, relatives, and coworkers at every opportunity is they are using these laws in truly insane ways. Like who in their right mind would have thought they would charge a 15 year old and 16 year old for taking pics of THEIR OWN BODIES and sending it to each other? That is truly f*cking insane.

And IMHO we need to go back to the way it was when I was a kid when we had two distinct groups-Jailbait and sick bastards. Jailbait was anyone consenting between the ages of 14-17 and sick bastards was an adult having sex with anyone under 14. But sticking an 18 year old as a child molester for having sex with a 16 year old is just too insane for words.

And of course the more important thing for the FBI is the power to "monitor" everything going across the net. How long do you think it will be after this that the feds are kicking down doors for those "illegal terrorist pirates"? The way they are trying to link copyright infringement with terrorism makes me think it will be a year or two at the most. This is a damn scary time to be an American, and sad to say I don't see anything coming that will change the path we are on. The corruption is just too deep for something like voting or reforms to fix. But that is my 02c,YMMV.

P.S. As someone who was hit on VERY hard by a cop pretending to be a 14 year old in a WINDOWS REPAIR chat room I used to run, I can tell you they WILL use entrapment and will do WHATEVER it takes to make an arrest, legal or not. I finally had to say "leave me the hell alone I don't mess with jailbait. Stop or I will ban your I.P." Before "she" came clean and told me who he was and what he was doing there. So of course I banned the I.P. range for his police department. ;-)