Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day 264
Alien54 wrote with a link to a Wired blog entry noting that May 14th is the official deadline for internet service providers to modify their networks, and meet the FBI and FCC's new regulations. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act requires that everyone from cable services to Universities give them access, within certain parameters, to the usage habits of customers. "So, if you're a broadband provider (separately, some VOIP companies are covered too) ... Hurry! The deadline has already passed to file an FCC form 445, certifying that you're on schedule, or explaining why you're not. You can also find the 68-page official industry spec for internet surveillance here. It'll cost you $164.00 to download, but then you'll know exactly what format to use when delivering customer packets to federal or local law enforcement, including 'e-mail, instant messaging records, web-browsing information and other information sent or received through a user's broadband connection, including on-line banking activity.'"
$164 (Score:5, Funny)
and.. (Score:5, Funny)
encrypt all your traffic (Score:1, Funny)
Monday (Score:3, Funny)
We win again, government, MUAHAHAHAH!
Re:suggestion (Score:3, Funny)
Bert
Who is considering encryption in the Navaho language
Re:Limits on government (Score:5, Funny)
You Americans should try it once... it's pretty cool actually.
Re:suggestion (Score:2, Funny)
Won't help. Tuesday is wiretap your brain stem day.
ah that explains it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Limits on government (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, we did try it once. We didn't think it nearly so cool as watching Paris Hilton go to jail for being a spoiled twit.
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Re:Limits on government (Score:1, Funny)