FBI Considers CALEA II: Mandatory Wiretapping On Every Device

Techmeology writes "In response to declining utility of CALEA mandated wiretapping backdoors due to more widespread use of cryptography, the FBI is considering a revamped version that would mandate wiretapping facilities in end users' computers and software. Critics have argued that this would be bad for security (PDF), as such systems must be more complex and thus harder to secure. CALEA has also enabled criminals to wiretap conversations by hacking the infrastructure used by the authorities. I wonder how this could ever be implemented in FOSS."

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Re:Sheesh

[lightknight]

The funny part is thinking that there are only three possible states of society: moving towards something better, stagnating, and regressing towards something less palatable. Very black and white thinking, to put your mind in a box, and believe that only one outcome is possible for the future.

Even more so to believe that there are not, in theory, several very different and not at all connected models for what a future society could look like.