Posted on 10/08/2010 11:06:18 PM PDT by justlittleoleme
The New York Times reported this morning on a Federal government plan to put government-mandated back doors in all communications systems, including all encryption software. The Times said the Obama administration is drafting a law that would impose a new "mandate" that all communications services be "able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages" — including ordering "[d]evelopers of software that enables peer-to-peer communication [to] redesign their service to allow interception".
(Excerpt) Read more at eff.org ...
This is major intrusion of privacy and has to be stopped. Stopped in the legislative process, don’t count on the courts.
Why, my my...Who would have thought that a new Marxist
leader and his government would want to spy on the citizens.
use PGP
The NYT confirms a “right wing” conspiracy theory?
Looks good on them?
Defeat Tor network? I2P? Freenet?
Not. Bloody. Likely.
They already have that access.
What they want is the law changed so they can use the info without any legal hassles.
Go Woz!
Double encryption is your friend.
Just slap in a 2nd layer of strong encryption.
save
**&^ **$$ &*^&*%*% ^ &%^*&% &#$^@*^ ()&^$
The feds are getting paranoid and are preparing for Civil War #2. They aren’t about to be broadsided by coalitions between state militia groups and the standing military or law enforcement. This isn’t about defending you and I from terrorists. It’s about access to private communications between citizens involving “enemy” intent, where that “enemy” is you and I and the rest of America that would dare oppose the anti-Constitutional elitist agenda. Everyone relies on computers and blackberries and these idiotic cell phones to communicate. What percentage of telephones in the U.S. are land lines? It used to be that the feds needed a court order to tap a phone line. Ironic, isn’t it, our vulnerable technological breakthroughs that have been trumpeted for so long as the finest fruit of liberty in a free society may very well end up being the rope that binds us to a new serfdom.
The same ones who passed the "Patriot Act".
It took me less than 18 minutes to decode it as: **&^ **$$ &*^&*%*% ^ &%^*&% &#$^@*^ ()&^$
I’ve got the C source for 256-bit BlowFish right here on this computer. Using it, I can compile encryption software with no back doors.
How is the government gong to stop this? Ban compilers?
Yeah. And listening to overseas phone calls from known terrorists was a horrible crime. Under President Bush, that is.
up. And just wait until a laptop with your decrypted communications on it gets lost, or is left open to the Internet.
Not to mention that's the end of online bank operations.
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