Obama Working on Plan to Wiretap Skype, Facebook, BlackBerrys

[The Straight Story]

Obama Working on Plan to Wiretap Skype, Facebook, BlackBerrys

The Obama administration wants to force all communications companies to make their networks compliable with wiretapping orders from law enforcement, a change that would primarily affect the likes of Facebook, Skype, BlackBerrys and similar encrypted systems.

Phone and broadband companies already are required under the 1994 Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act to ensure their operations can allow for eavesdropping by police and federal agents. But more recent communications like BlackBerrys, which encrypt emails, make it difficult for the government to intercept messages that may involve terrorist plots.

The White House has been working with the FBI, the Department of Justice and the National Security Agency to develop a plan that would be submitted to Congress sometime next year.


http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Obama_Working_on_Plan_to_Wiretap_Skype_Facebook_BlackBerrys_100929

[Taverner]

1. With friends like these....

Et cetera...

[FrenchieCat]

2. Obama is the devil! He's Hitler!

:scared:

[dionysus]

3. he's even WORSE than hitler!!11!!

;)

[Codeine]

4. Does that make him Devil Hitler?

Or worse; Zombie Devil Hitler? :scared:

[dionysus]

6. black muslin hitler!

[hendo]

7. Or, did Eddie Murphy get to him? Black Muslim Vampire Hitler!

[rug]

11. Whatever he is, he's no civil libertarian.

[The Straight Story]

13. What has that got to do with the op, or are you just trying to protect and deflect

Let me guess, if bush had done something similar you would have said....??

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Initially degandered salitacious tentitdue begets beneficiance of xenphalic hypoxia.

[nadinbrzezinski]

No, he is JUST an Imperial President

with an Empire in decline. The process to close the US as a society started after OKC with Echelon under Clinton.

Use the google... and this has nothing to do with letter behind name.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. No, he is JUST an Imperial President

with an Empire in decline. The process to close the US as a society started after OKC with Echelon under Clinton.

Use the google... and this has nothing to do with letter behind name.

[laconicsax]

5. Inexcusable.

Remember, the President says that people who don't blindly follow him hate civil liberties.

[Bluebear]

8. Change!

[rug]

9. Buck up, man, there's an election to win.

[hendo]

10. Fortunately the EFF will try to protect us from this insanity. NT

[rocktivity]

12. As long as they get a warrant first.

:patriot:
rocktivity

[pipi_k]

15. Well I'll just say this...

It's so insane that I really can't believe he's serious about it.

Maybe just trying to play some kind of devious cat-and-mouse game with Republicans.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. I can... closed societies need this

and truth be told the process to close the US started under Clinton... google Echelon.

[treestar]

17. Sounds like an update to the 1994 law

to keep up with new technology

[Canuckistanian]

19. Wiretap BlackBerrys?

I thought they used a proprietary encryption scheme using their own servers.

And last I heard, RIM was denying governments access to their servers.

[msanthrope]

21. Yes. That's the problem. The government has the wiretap warrant, but not the technology. n/t

[msanthrope]

20. Wow--a President that wants a warrant BEFORE tapping....

that is a change....

Making systems compliant with warranted tapping is not a bad thing.

Just as forcing gun makers to put serial numbers, and other compliance modifications is not an impingement on your civil rights, either.

[yodermon]

22. truecrypt is open source and demonstrably uncrackable, no backdoors.

if baddies really want to keep stuff hidden they can and will do so.

[ecstatic]

23. do you have a credible link? nt

[Ellipsis]

24. There's a solution all ready in place called "Vantage."

Facetime is the company.

Vantage is used by the world's largest firms to ensure security, management, and compliance for UC - from presence and instant messaging to conferencing and voice – to safely enhance business productivity and responsiveness without compromising network security.

http://www3.facetime.com/productservices/vantage.aspx