[dila813]

This sounds like a huge security hole that everyone will be able to attack.

I am all for wiretaps, but when you purposely put in a universal hole in your security, you are asking for people to target this hole. here, but it sounds like the These people are the Chinese, terrorists, etc.

They will take note to explote this.

I don't know why our government thinks these types of things will work in the future. There was a time when you had to physically had to touch and have the knowledge to exploit security holes.

I don't aggree with everything in this article, but it does appear as if the government is trying to enable the ability to scan all communciations on the internet searching for the subject communications. Problem is that this is subject to abuse and hacking by others that want to use this system.

[clee1]

The feds can already eavesdrop on any electronic commerce they care to. They OWN the backbone....

I agree with you: this won't help the Feds at all and will be a tremendous boon for the criminals.

[Syntyr]

Let me guess if I know the feds the password will probably be either "password" or "gman"

Sheeesh stupid!

[RichInOC]

Tell those freaks to stay away from my back door. I'm not that kind of guy.

[Prime Choice]

Encrypt as if your life depends on it.

It does.

[Prime Choice]

They will take note to explote this.

Sort of like the way phreakers take advantage of internal phone company auditing systems...the kind that record your inbound and outbound phone numbers, length of phone calls, and even audio access to your conversations.

What law enforcement needs a court order for the telcos can do with impunity in the name of "internal auditing."

Privacy? It's just an illusion when you're dealing with anything electronic in an unencrypted environ, folks.

[endthematrix]

"Practically, what this means is..."

I can't help but giggle at that.

"CALEA, a law passed in the early 1990s"

Bubba legacy

[jwh_Denver]

Now who in h gave these clowns, no, tyrants, this kind of power? The number one criminal here is our government.

[sourcery]

"Government backdoors" will not accomplish their nominal objectives. Professional criminals will just use Guardster and/or Neomailbox.com, and/or other equivalent services. Large criminal organizations, intelligence services and terrorist networks (sorry about the redundancy) will construct and use their own privacy technologies that operate on top of the public communications networks, with cost being no object.

Since the Feds know all this, the question that should be asked is what their true motives actually are.

[Pro-Bush]

I am not worried, voice over broadband can't even get e911 service to work.

[Paul C. Jesup]

The moment hackers start using these government mandated 'backdoors' to take control and shutdown these networks (costing the U.S. economy tens of billions in U.S. dollars), this regulation will be shelved.

[Drammach]

Dammit..

I just KNOW the ACLU is going to take up this topic..
I HATE having to support the ACLU on topics..

But in this instance I will have to..

[snowsislander]

as well as companies that manufacture devices used for broadband communications – to build insecure backdoors into their networks, imperiling the privacy and security of citizens on the Internet.

It should be interesting trying to convince, say, the Red Chinese to participate in this scheme.