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FBI and Next-Gen P2P Monitoring

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the big-brother-wants-to-give-you-a-hug dept.

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.

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  1. They're not slow... by seramar · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not the people who are slow. Their comments are just tied up in the RISS awaiting gov approval.

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    australian project gutenberg is better than the original.
  2. Dupe? by mrvan · · Score: 5, Informative
    Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files, it talks about the same plan by the same senator, and I don't see any new developments.

    Seriously though, how difficult is it to use the slashdot search engine with the capitalized words in the title? third hit...

  3. Re:All Fear, No Facts by Robocoastie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's just the typical Democratic party cry wolf "we gotta do something!!!!" syndrome again. In this case it's also putting Sen. Biden back in the spotlight after his poor performance in the Iowa caucus. Political moves aside though let's think about what they are really asking. What is child porn? The government even lacks a definition of "porn" much less child. I have a serious problem believing that "child porn" is an epidemic requireing the black helecoptors so to speak. What likely is popular though is teen-fascination which psychiatry has an entirely different definition for. Our society in fact is geared toward that even between cheerleaders and dancers being just short of being nude, Disney channel turning tweens into glamored up pop stars, and shows like Dawson's Creek, Gossip Girls and the like having more adult themes than Desperate Housewives. This is nothing new though; in fact society used to marry their women off between 14 and 17 anyway. My point is I really wonder if real child porn actually is as bad as the fear mongers claim or if people's collective conscious is simply equating teen-fascination with it when they hear of those cases (which has increasingly been from female teacher - male student lately). The result of which is the "we gotta do something!!!" panic which then grants the government sweeping powers to do all kinds of spying with a fictional and ultimately false pretense.