That information already exists. What is
unacceptable here is a policy that makes the
information available to law enforcement for the
asking. ISPs need to require a valid warrant for
any invasion of the privacy of their users.
Information obtained from the ISP in this manner
will be the start of evidence collection. If it is
cheap for the police to get "good starts" for data
mining they are going to able consider the desire
to be left alone as probable cause, and let the
data collection geeks sort out who is guilty of
something. If you ever use encryption for
anything (PGP, ssh, ssl) they might just put a
watch your unencrypted traffic (IM, http, ftp,
irc) for a bit.
The only thing protecting your privacy at this
point is the sheer bulk of mostly meaningless
data. The police cannot snoop everything, but if
you fit an interesting statistic you might be
snooped as a matter of course.
I work with authentication and accounting systems
for a living. If anything, we need laws
specifically preventing ISPs from releasing or
using the data that is already being collected.
You have to take this kind of crap seriously. Be
offended by the stupity displayed by the
"journalist" who would say something like:
Child pornographers are hiding behind untraceable free Internet
Anyone who has worked at an ISP probably realizes
how
easy it is to get information on users. Law
enforcement is just tired of those pesky warrants and due process and privacy protections. Don't the
bleeding hearts and liberty freaks understand what
a dangerous, nasty world we live in?
The dream of law enforcement agencies would allow unreasonable search and seizure of httpd logs,
radius logs, nfr logs, and anything else they
might like to throw into the pot.
The forces of anti-privacy have offered up
hackers and pornographers as reasons to give up
privacy. I am just afraid that they will be
bright enough to use spammers and pull in some of
you people.
I suppose a legal solution to this (assuming we're not into Blue Boxes here) is to simply call the phone company and ask for that twenty dollars a month (or whatever the fee is) service which blocks caller ID from identifying your phone. Or, if you want, you can do it for free by dialing *67. And hell, since it's your computer dialing every time, not you, you can simply add it the beginning of the dialup number the first time and forget it.
Caller-ID != ANI
Caller-ID != ANI
Caller-ID != ANI
I need a chanting midi to load with this post.
Lots of people here have the misconception that
the phone network works something like the
Internet. Very few similarities. Provisions for
billing are built in to telephone switching and
signaling. The signaling system is not accesible
to users, so unless you are dealing with very
old equipment your {color}box won't work.
Wish I had some online resources to educate you
people, but I can suggest you peruse a copy of
Greg Black's "ISDN and SS7".
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Excellent point. Thanks for making it.
Information obtained from the ISP in this manner will be the start of evidence collection. If it is cheap for the police to get "good starts" for data mining they are going to able consider the desire to be left alone as probable cause, and let the data collection geeks sort out who is guilty of something. If you ever use encryption for anything (PGP, ssh, ssl) they might just put a watch your unencrypted traffic (IM, http, ftp, irc) for a bit.
The only thing protecting your privacy at this point is the sheer bulk of mostly meaningless data. The police cannot snoop everything, but if you fit an interesting statistic you might be snooped as a matter of course.
I work with authentication and accounting systems for a living. If anything, we need laws specifically preventing ISPs from releasing or using the data that is already being collected.
You have to take this kind of crap seriously. Be offended by the stupity displayed by the "journalist" who would say something like:
Anyone who has worked at an ISP probably realizes how easy it is to get information on users. Law enforcement is just tired of those pesky warrants and due process and privacy protections. Don't the bleeding hearts and liberty freaks understand what a dangerous, nasty world we live in?
The dream of law enforcement agencies would allow unreasonable search and seizure of httpd logs, radius logs, nfr logs, and anything else they might like to throw into the pot.
The forces of anti-privacy have offered up hackers and pornographers as reasons to give up privacy. I am just afraid that they will be bright enough to use spammers and pull in some of you people.
I imagine that the fellow pictured did not survive very long and is one of the "dead homoz" you suggest be given "props" in the "FP".
Caller-ID != ANI
Caller-ID != ANI
Caller-ID != ANI
I need a chanting midi to load with this post.
Lots of people here have the misconception that the phone network works something like the Internet. Very few similarities. Provisions for billing are built in to telephone switching and signaling. The signaling system is not accesible to users, so unless you are dealing with very old equipment your {color}box won't work.
Wish I had some online resources to educate you people, but I can suggest you peruse a copy of Greg Black's "ISDN and SS7".