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FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone
Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, writes "There are places where criminal activity is centralized: the backbone hubs located in hosting facilities across the country. All of the Internet's activity, legal and illegal, flows through these 'choke points,' and the feds, of course, are already tapping those points and siphoning off data. What Mueller wants is the legal authority to comb through the backbone data, which is already being siphoned off by the NSA, in order to look for illegal activity."
The legal authority to block anything he can't read.
I would say "Welcome to Soviet America" but the feds have had the "we can do what we want in the name of protecting the country damn the Constitution" attitude off and on since the 1700s.
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Why is it so easy to trash the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and so hard to put them back? What a bunch of assholes. They must have had the words "probable cause" surgically removed from their brains.
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This is not filtering, this is mining. Both are considered bad, but there is a difference.
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If they are able to distinguish between encrypted data and JPEG images, the encryption used is seriously flawed.
>> "There are places where criminal activity is centralized..."
Yes there are. The White House, NSA, Dept of Homeland Security.
I'm not sure what planet you've been on, but the last time the Republican party was the party of civil liberties was when Lincoln was president.
The biggest ad hock mesh I know if is Meraki's San Fran Mesh. However with the feds having CALEA hanging over every open hotspot, I don't see alternates really growing that well. What average person is going to be able to comply with the real time snooping/sniffing/auditing requirements, let alone sweat the 10,000 a day fine, just to let others use the Internet? If it's not plug and play simplicity it's not going to happen.
And , given the nature the net works , blocking encrypted data on one backbone , will just make at pass trough an other backbone to reach it's destination.
Plus , even if it would work , it wouldn't help them , since people would start to use other methods to get things done .
Another thing i am thinking about : I'm sure it's easy to detect unencrypted traffic , as one can just apply a filter on it .
Encrypted traffic however , can be hard to identify .
Imagine sending an encrypted file . It will be binary , just like any other file .
So it won't be possible to know the file is encrypted .
One could also send a regular looking file ( like an image ) , wich would obviously never be blocked.
Slipping shoelaces ?
Kindly see his response to my post. He deliberately selected a slur.
Brush up on your ability to detect the bigots.
Oh, I see you have bought into the twisting Ron Paul version of the Constitution. There's a reason why no legitimate Constitutional scholar supports his view.