FBI plans new Net-tapping push

[Newsjock]

http://news.com.com/FBI+plans+new+Net-tapping+push/2100-1028_3-6091942.html

By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of networking gear to build in backdoors for eavesdropping, CNET News.com has learned.

FBI Agent Barry Smith distributed the proposal at a private meeting last Friday with industry representatives and indicated it would be introduced by Sen. Mike DeWine, an Ohio Republican, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.

The draft bill would place the FBI's Net-surveillance push on solid legal footing. At the moment, it's ensnared in a legal challenge from universities and some technology companies that claim the Federal Communications Commission's broadband surveillance directives exceed what Congress has authorized.

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[guruoo]

1. Link

http://news.com.com/FBI+plans+new+Net-tapping+push/2100-1028_3-6091942.html

[NoodleyAppendage]

2. The push towards FASCISM will not stop itself. WE MUST FIGHT IT.

The Repukes and christofascists have shown that they will allow irrational fears and their lockstep, unquestioning world-view to move our country closer and closer to a totalitarian state. Some may say this this worry is paranoid or ungrounded, but I think the government's actions in the past decade bear out these fears.

Mike DeWine and his Repuke brethern are nothing short of TRAITORS to the democratic ideals promulgated by our country's founding fathers. DeWine would be tarred and feathered or hung if transported back to late 18th century America.

The time has come to PUSH BACK. Stand and be counted for freedom.

J

[Up2Late]

3. "The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation..."

WTF? Since when has the FBI drafted legislation? I thought that was the job of the Lobbyists?:wtf:

[EFerrari]

4. Exactly!

Now, we're in trouble. :)

[DELUSIONAL]

5. Oh goodie -- and meanwhile the bushie gang is MORE secretive

There is a whole lot WE should know about the bush gang --

For starters what kinds of meds is bush on?

Exactly what is Cheney doing?

How dumb is bush really?

What about the energy meetings -- and what other stuff is happening that we should know about.

Who have they really been spying on? How many people are they blackmailing???

Lots of stuff -- lots of questions.

[annabanana]

6. of course these "hubs" will ~ never ~ be used

without all the proper warrants and safeguards on our civil rights....
:sarcasm:

[mtnester]

7. DeWine! That effing dweeb

he is an emabarrasment to my state.

So, wonder how repubs will feel when it is OK for the federal government to watch you do something you may even hide from your spouse or employer?

[cyberpj]

8. Since when does the FBI draft legislation?!?! So why do we need congress?

Jesus H. Christ!

[0007]

9. The birth of a dictatorship

Scare the shit out of all left wing posters and build big houses for the hard core.

junior will soon be in the high nineties.

[Straight Shooter]

10. Now we know why the story about the Holland Tunnel "plot" was leaked.

It was Internet chatter, don'tcha know, that nabbed those guys. Surveilling the Internet works, got it? What do you have to hide, and why do you hate Murika?

:sarcasm:

[NVMojo]

11. Karl needs fodder to draft a swiftboat campaign for upcoming elections

[autorank]

12. Codifying the obvious...n/t

:puke:

[liberalla]

13. What? "The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation" ???

Thanks for posting.

One more thing we need to pay attention to...
Damn! The list is so long.

K & R!

[Reckon]

14. I believe the "hub" they're referring to is your home

network hub. It has a built in firewall. That also goes for software makers that make firewalls like ZoneAlarm. They want back doors or a key that will let them in to view what's on your hard drive. Or at least that's what the law will used for.

[caligirl]

15. Hoover returns to the FBI ala Bush and Rove