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Obama administration revives Draconian communications intercept
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Sep 27 08:27:09 2010
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:26:14 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
[Moderator's note: there are messages still in the queue that will go
out later today, but I felt this had to go out ASAP --Perry]
=46rom the New York Times, word that the Obama administration wants to
compel access to encrypted communications.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html
Excerpt:
U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Published: September 27, 2010
WASHINGTON =E2=80=94 Federal law enforcement and national security offici=
als
are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet,
arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism
suspects is =E2=80=9Cgoing dark=E2=80=9D as people increasingly communica=
te online
instead of by telephone.
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that
enable communications =E2=80=94 including encrypted e-mail transmitters l=
ike
BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software
that allows direct =E2=80=9Cpeer to peer=E2=80=9D messaging like Skype =
=E2=80=94 to be
technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order. The
mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble
encrypted messages.
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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