Those that want this specific tool (black, white,or grey hat) will know how to get it. It's not like anyone capable of using such tools cannot handle tar, make, and make install.
An MP of the Green Party, Max Andersson, put a question today to the Minister of Justice, Beatrice Ask, regarding FRA's previous wiretapping in violation of the Swedish consitition.
The text is in Swedish but translates roughly to:
According to claims in the media, for instance Computer Sweden, there are strong reasons to believe that Försvarets Radioanstalt, FRA, already engaged in wiretapping of phone calls, despite the fact that there is no legal support for doing so.
It is said that FRA already listens, or have listened, to phone calls transmitted wireless. That may include calls over the wired telecom network which may sometimes be routed over satellite or radio, and are thus possible to listen in on via radio recievers.
Although this has not explicitly been illegal according to Swedish law, it has neither been explicitly permitted. According to FRA's former second in command, Anders Wik, The European Convention on human rights is interpreted such as wiretapping is illegal unless explicitly permitted by national law.
Anders Wik is said to have commented the bill as "the task" (to listen in on conversations over radio) "have existed earlier, but will now be made legal.".
Thus, there are strong reasons to believe that the FRA has engaged in wiretapping whose legality may be questioned.
Will the Minister take any steps to investigate to what extent this has been done?
encrypt if you don't want it snooped on. if it goes out on the wire, it is prone to being intercepted and snooped on, by the government or someone else. you realize that, right?
Hmm, well. Only, it includes text messgaes (SMS), phones (both wired and mobile) and Faxes as well. Ho do you encrypt those?
The music industry around here are talking about that they want to start an experiment with voluntary broadband-tax, starting this autumn, which will allow you to, for a small fee, download all the music you want from Pirate Bay or wherever. Uploading will still be illegal.
That is not only wrong, it is contradictory as well. It is far from decided what form the experiment will take and even what music will be included or with what technology.
Contradictory because you say uploading will be illegal and yet you are allowed to download from The Pirate Bay... how do you do that without uploading while downloading? If it's illegal to upload, from who should the participants in the experiment download their stuff? From criminals?
In fact this proposition has been widely criticized, particularly in the blogosphere. One of the main problems with the experiment is, how to measure what music is downloaded, who are the rights holders and how to locate them and pay them. One suggestions was to install a piece of software in each participants computer that would monitor every download. Now, why would that meet any resistance?
One of the bosses I had working for an e-commerce company in the late 1990's had came over to Sweden from the US.
She asked me one
morning why her international AOL dial up wouldn't work. I found that she had plugged in the modem cable into a cat 5 outlet,
which wouldn't work. I told her that the modem wanted a phone line and not ethernet.
I wasn't surprised when she told me again
that things wouldn't work, and I found that she now had pluged an actual phone into the modem plug. "See? Your idea wouldn't work either".
She was actually a natural. At another visit to Sweden, she noticed that the Olympic games was on the TV:
"Oh, so you have the Olympics in Europe now too".
I bit my tounge to keep a sour comment of the location of mount Olympus in.
Rik
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Someone ought to tell the author he's wrong:
thurrott@winnetmag.com:)
I worked at an e-commerse company in 2000 and the
tech group was asked to do a similar presentation
of the "current situation". The situation was
critical and we had really no way of avoiding
to share the problems we we're experiencing with
the company's e-commerse system.
Those problems were mission critical to the
company (the system was more or less the company)
Afterwards I was told by the VP that the tech group must "stop this 'us against the world
attitude'".
A year later, the company went bankrupt.
Another memorable situation was a budget
presentation by the VP, in which he declared
"Things are really looking great. All we have to
do to break even next year, is to double our
sales. Every month."
Our recently abandonned
"us against the world attitude"
kept us from commenting on technicalities as
2^numMonth * sales... overflow error...
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Those that want this specific tool (black, white,or grey hat) will know how to get it. It's not like anyone capable of using such tools cannot handle tar, make, and make install.
What if you have a red hat?
That is not only wrong, it is contradictory as well. It is far from decided what form the experiment will take and even what music will be included or with what technology.
Contradictory because you say uploading will be illegal and yet you are allowed to download from The Pirate Bay... how do you do that without uploading while downloading? If it's illegal to upload, from who should the participants in the experiment download their stuff? From criminals?
In fact this proposition has been widely criticized, particularly in the blogosphere. One of the main problems with the experiment is, how to measure what music is downloaded, who are the rights holders and how to locate them and pay them. One suggestions was to install a piece of software in each participants computer that would monitor every download. Now, why would that meet any resistance?
What if you use TinyURL.com, is that blocked as well?
Interestingly, google wasn't so happy when "google" made the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a verb. I think it's going to be interesting to see what their response to this will be.
How is this supposed to work with ssh (text only) logins?
One of the bosses I had working for an e-commerce company in the late 1990's had came over to Sweden from the US.
She asked me one morning why her international AOL dial up wouldn't work. I found that she had plugged in the modem cable into a cat 5 outlet, which wouldn't work. I told her that the modem wanted a phone line and not ethernet.
I wasn't surprised when she told me again that things wouldn't work, and I found that she now had pluged an actual phone into the modem plug. "See? Your idea wouldn't work either".
She was actually a natural. At another visit to Sweden, she noticed that the Olympic games was on the TV:
"Oh, so you have the Olympics in Europe now too".
I bit my tounge to keep a sour comment of the location of mount Olympus in.
Rik
Someone ought to tell the author he's wrong: :)
thurrott@winnetmag.com
I worked at an e-commerse company in 2000 and the tech group was asked to do a similar presentation of the "current situation". The situation was critical and we had really no way of avoiding to share the problems we we're experiencing with the company's e-commerse system. Those problems were mission critical to the company (the system was more or less the company) Afterwards I was told by the VP that the tech group must "stop this 'us against the world attitude'". A year later, the company went bankrupt. Another memorable situation was a budget presentation by the VP, in which he declared "Things are really looking great. All we have to do to break even next year, is to double our sales. Every month." Our recently abandonned "us against the world attitude" kept us from commenting on technicalities as 2^numMonth * sales... overflow error...