Why not require phone companies to record all conversations, too, just in case the FBI wants to listen to them?
This is one thing that is so egregious that I really would vote out a republican that supported it. Whatever happened to getting a search warrant?
""Terrorists coordinate their plans cloaked in the anonymity of the Internet, as do violent sexual predators prowling chat rooms,""
I'm surprised he didn't find a way to fold the War on Some Drugs into terror and predation. The unholy trio usually appear in tandem when freedom is under GOP attack.
I've been expecting this for a long time based on "protecting the children" or protecting the media companies from music and movie sharing. It will be quite interesting to see the push for ISPs to record everything balanced against the growth of wireless technologies and hacking.
Hands up!!!! WHO DIDN'T KNOW that when we get our first female president that the Madam President would have powers to track militias and VRWC "terrorists" over the inter net???
HOLD YOUR HANDS HIGH< PLEASE!!!
Yeah, I want somebody else to do my job, too. Perhaps the FBI could take care of it if they succeed in offloading their own work to ISPs.
Robert Mueller is an idiot. I would vote against anyone that supports this agenda. Too bad its so close to the election to get a handle on where this is going.
innocent until proven guilty?
This is the FBI camel getting its nose under the tent in the guise of the war on terror and to help the children.
Maybe Mueller should go back to trying to get democrats elected by harrassing Republican Candidates.
Everyone should be required to wear a GPS ankle bracelet too, 24/7, to keep track of where they go. Sheesh!
F@#$ the FBI director and what he wants. I didn't pay an ISP to be spied on.
Why are the Republicans (Ed Whitfield, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce oversight and investigations subcommittee, and Joe Barton, chairman of the full committee) giving this moon bat the time of day?
From a technical standpoint, doable, but I believe very expensive.
You would need some sort of passive tap system at all switch uplink ports to capture and redirect traffic to a storage server. Switch hardware and software will also dictate whether you can do ingress, as well as egress captures of traffic.
Or, you could rely on software to do port mirroring of traffic to a storage server connected to a port on the switch.
The storage requirements would be enormous.
A note that this is already the law in higher ed (e.g. CALEA). See http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=698 for more info.
Say NO to Herr Gonzales' obsession with porn. Let him stop investigating us, Lewis Libby and Curt Weldon, and start arresting executives who hire illegal aliens by the hundreds. Start defending the damn border. Oh, I forgot, Herr Gonzales gets his order from Mexico City. Never mind.
Just the government trying to control the internet. I won't vote for anyone who tries to backdoor this kind of crap in under the guise of protecting children. That's a democrat ploy.
If the left gets back into power they will use this to find people who say "macaca" and get them fired and prosecuted for "hate crimes".
I am not fooling.
These sorry lying power grabbing JB thugs. All they have to do is write down the ISP of the site and go from there. If they want to find illicit material then they should put two chimps on a computer typing in random URL's and they'll likely find it within an hour. This is all about controlling our lives. The government leadership could care less about da children.
It's a sad day when the GOP is now the enabling party for the likes of these. Good old fashioned police work by surfing the net and acting on it fine. That has been proved to work. Keeping records on law abiding citizens for future usage? NO! Jay Edgar Hoover would be so proud of the FBI Director and Little Caesar our USAG.