Time For X-No-Wiretap HTTP Header?

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 8, 2013 @03:25AM from the tongue-boring-through-cheek dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes "A security blogger, acknowledging that the NSA methodically ranks communications on the basis of their 'foreignness' factor to determine candidacy for prolonged retention proposes, is proposing '...an opportunity for us on the civilian front to aid the NSA by voluntarily indicating citizenship on all our networked communications. Here, we define the syntax and semantics of X-No-Wiretap, a HTTP header-based mechanism for indicating and proving citizenship to well-intentioned man-in-the-middle parties. It is inspired by the enormously successful RFC 3514 IPv4 Security Flag and HTTP DNT header.'"

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Re:Almost as good as Evil BIt! by Vlad_the_Inhaler · 2013-09-08 04:19 · Score: 3, Informative

The Evil Bit is only defined under IPV4, time to update the specs.

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Re:Asking them nicely will stop help? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-08 04:23 · Score: 2, Informative

The House and Senate do have oversight of the NSA. If only because they can just cut off funding and fire the NSA at will. That is oversight. If they want the NSA to stop doing something, they have only to tell them to stop and back it up by cutting funding.