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.'"

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Re:This is terrible!

[Anonymous Coward]

"Let's all show our love for them and help them out!"

Um, you still fly the "Friendly"(sic) Skies...? But perhaps we might celebrate 'em all in some other way than allowing yet another top-down intrusion scheme... I got it! Let's help throw the Bureau a BAKE SALE! (Hold up on them fine Alice B. Toklas brownies, is all.) ;)

Maybe the attitude'll soften a bit once a certain series of Controlled Demolitions that took place with NO DEMOLITION PERMIT, about a decade back in downtown Manhattan, is at LAST treated to proper MOM-based Genuine Forensic Procedures. Once the Greedy Golden Lily-white (but for one and *she* ain't white by a long shot) high-hand "l33t"(sic) perps of THAT mass murder are brought to justice at LAST, a modicum of public trust will surely be restored. Until then: Nuh-uh.

Hint: Read your EP Heidner and catch the Abundance of Clues from Public Documents, Smart Gentle Literate Audience! Until that wee touch of Official Work Left Denied and Undone is at last done - and Done Right at that, fwiw - THIS Smart Gentle Literate Complex Systems Analyst has little respect for the integrity of said Bureau.

No cowards here. Just ain't signed in. And that is all! 0{:-|o