CNet: Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retention

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged telecommunications officials to record their customers' Internet activities, CNET News.com has learned.

In a private meeting with industry representatives, Gonzales, Mueller and other senior members of the Justice Department said Internet service providers should retain subscriber information and network data for two years, according to two sources familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The closed-door meeting at the Justice Department, which Gonzales had requested, according to the sources, comes as the idea of legally mandated data retention has become popular on Capitol Hill and inside the Bush administration. Supporters of the idea say it will help prosecutions of child pornography because in many cases, logs are deleted during the routine course of business.

In a speech last month at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Gonzales said that Internet providers must retain records for a "reasonable amount of time."

http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6077654.html

In light of Tex Sensenbrenner's regular spasming about HIS privacy, recently, I find this quite interesting. Should they implement this, you can bet the servers storing this info will be hooked into DHS datamining 24/7/365.

As has been said: "Child Porn is the root password to The Constitution". Or so it seems.

[symbolman]

1. So what happens if a bunch of Hackers

installed a bunch of kiddie porn on Congress folks computers and then alerted the FBI that there was a crime in commission?

Looks like all the Govt has to do is install kiddie porn on ANYONE'S computer and then COME AFTER THEM, seize everything, jail them with no lawyer, and destroy their lives..

Open season on anyone.. a tech version of Soviet Daze, where they declared you insane and stuck you in a hole for the rest of your life.

This is DANGEROUS, and needs to be fought with all means available..

Wonder if Meuller would arrest Gonzales if he found kiddie Porn on his computer? :)

[nebenaube]

2. gee where have you been?

It's already happening... it's been happening for years now and they are probably even entrapping people who don't know where to report the stuff if and when it arrives... Ever been hit by spyware? If you're on window$ there's probably 30 open vulnerabilities on your machine. One drive by download by a hijacked spoof site and the evidence is there. They can root-kit your system so effectively that you could never find the bot that puts the stuff on your box. I've had emails enticing me to come look at kiddie porn (forwarded to FBI) and hopefully the spam filters are handling it all automatically now and I can rely on Cloudmark to appropriately report the crap so I don't have to.

[symbolman]

5. Don't have the acumen or the Tech knowledge

but can still see shit coming down from afar, thanks for the tech update, it's greek to me, but yeah, anytime someone says something CAN be done, it usually means it HAS been done :)

Appreciate the headsup

[heartofthesiskiyou]

3. These guys are playing with fire

I believe "forced logging" on the servers could be level 9 alert material.

For the record, this has nothing to do with kiddy porn other then an excuse to "sell it" to the public and congress.

[Supersedeas]

4. Well, do you support the Pedophiles -- is that how the Strawman goes?