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[Cryptography] "India wants special monitoring access for Twitter,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Aug 9 14:21:00 2011
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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 11:20:37 -0700
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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http://www.cio.com.au/article/396417/
Quoting. Crypto starts being mentioned in the fourth paragraph:
India's communications ministry has been asked by the home ministry
to monitor social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook
amid fears that the services are being used by terrorists to plan
attacks.
The request suggests that the Indian government is trying to broaden
the scope of its online surveillance for national security.
Telecommunications service providers in India provide facilities for
lawful interception and monitoring of communications on their
network, including communications from social networking websites
such as Facebook and Twitter, in accordance with their license
agreements,[...]
But there are certain communications which are encrypted, Deora said
Friday.
The government did not provide details of what encrypted data they
would like to have access to. A spokesman for the home ministry said
on Monday that additional information can only be provided in
Parliament while it is in session.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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