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FBI Complains About Wiretapping Difficulties Due To Web Services
c0lo writes with news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is lamenting the difficulty in executing wiretaps because of "web-based e-mail, social-networking and peer-to-peer services."
"President Barack Obama's administration is debating ways to deal with Web-based services not covered by traditional wiretap laws, including incentives for companies to build in surveillance capabilities, said Valerie Caproni, general counsel at the FBI. Many Internet services are not covered by the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which requires traditional telecom carriers to allow law enforcement agencies real-time access to communications after a court has issued a wiretap order, she told members of a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. But Caproni told lawmakers she was not asking for expanded CALEA powers. And she stopped short of calling for rules requiring Web-based communication providers to build in so-called back doors allowing law enforcement access to their software, although she said she's optimistic the US government can find incentives for companies to 'have intercept solutions engineered into their systems.'"
The FBI needs to have easy access to everything - to keep up safe. All sites need to provide the FBI with all user data.
Would peer to peer services which offer end to end encryption like Skype be required to re-engineer their software to allow government wiretaps? This could be the end of personal use encryption as we know it.
Only criminals use encryption. If you're not doing anything wrong, what is there to hide?
Would peer to peer services which offer end to end encryption like Skype be required to re-engineer their software to allow government wiretaps? This could be the end of personal use encryption as we know it.
Only criminals use encryption. If you're not doing anything wrong, what is there to hide?
Nothing, of course. Unless you're part of the goverment. In that case, you're hiding information to protect your citizens.
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The poor little FBI is having trouble spying on people (court order or not). Let's all show our love for them and help them out!
If they ask nicely, they can have my Capn Crunch secret decoder ring. But they have to be nice about it.
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