July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

[IP] more on FBI plans new Net-tapping push
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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<nettime> icann
by DeeDee Halleck 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

By Michael Roberts Sep 05, 2011 The leaked release of the European Commission's working papers on the future of Top Level Domains highlights the impending collision between adherents of the present "multistakeholder" ICANN governance model, and an ever longer list of national governments who challenge that model. At the core of the controversy is the question of how ICANN can claim legitimacy in the DNS world when none of its Directors or Officers are elected. Even worse, its only answer, when challenged legally, is that it is responsive to its contract with an agency of the U.S. Government, which agency claims authority from the elected Congress of the United States through the agency's organic act, which nowhere mentions the Internet, ICANN, or the Domain Name System .... http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110905_icanns_unelected_crisis/ -- http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: [IP] FBI plans new Net-tapping push
by Lauren Weinstein 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Dave, Data retention laws. Purpose-built voice and data wiretapping capabilities in communications gear. A sharp salute to the masters of the Black Chamber, with terrorism and child abuse the rhetorical keys to creating the pervasive surveillance society. But there's a piece missing. Crypto controls of course! Despite their fundamental impracticality, laws prohibiting, controlling, or penalizing the use of "untappable" crypto will be increasingly enticing to the powers-that-be. For of what use is all that extremely expensive wiretapping capability if you can't interpret the damned bits? Such control laws would of course trigger a vast escalation in the crypto "arms race" -- with ever more emphasis on steganographic and other message obscuring techniques. Innocents will have their personal and business privacy eviscerated, while the truly evil will plunge deeper from view, with knee-jerk reactions pulling our basic liberties down the rathole as well. After all, even the road to "1984" was paved with good intentions. Indeed, "He loved Big Brother." --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren(a)vortex.com or lauren(a)pfir.org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com - - - > >Begin forwarded message: > >From: Richard Forno <rforno(a)infowarrior.org> >Date: July 8, 2006 2:22:38 AM EDT >To: Blaster <rforno(a)infowarrior.org> >Cc: Dave Farber <dave(a)farber.net> >Subject: FBI plans new Net-tapping push > >FBI plans new Net-tapping push > >By Declan McCullagh >http://news.com.com/FBI+plans+new+Net-tapping+push/ >2100-1028_3-6091942.html > >Story last modified Fri Jul 07 18:55:01 PDT 2006 > >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. > >The FBI claims that expanding the 1994 Communications Assistance >for Law >Enforcement Act is necessary to thwart criminals and terrorists who >have >turned to technologies like voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP. > >"The complexity and variety of communications technologies have >dramatically >increased in recent years, and the lawful intercept capabilities of >the >federal, state and local law enforcement community have been under >continual >stress, and in many cases have decreased or become impossible," >according to >a summary accompanying the draft bill. > >Complicating the political outlook for the legislation is an ongoing >debate >over allegedly illegal surveillance by the National Security >Administration--punctuated by several lawsuits challenging it on >constitutional grounds and an unrelated proposal to force Internet >service >providers to record what Americans are doing online. One source, who >asked >not to be identified because of the sensitive nature of last Friday's >meeting, said the FBI viewed this as a top congressional priority for >2007. > >Breaking the legislation down >The 27-page proposed CALEA amendments seen by CNET News.com would: > >b" Require any manufacturer of "routing" and "addressing" hardware to >offer >upgrades or other "modifications" that are needed to support Internet >wiretapping. Current law does require that of telephone switch >manufacturers--but not makers of routers and network address >translation >hardware like Cisco Systems and 2Wire. > >b" Authorize the expansion of wiretapping requirements to "commercial" >Internet services including instant messaging if the FCC deems it to >be in >the "public interest." That would likely sweep in services such as in- >game >chats offered by Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming system as well. > >b" Force Internet service providers to sift through their customers' >communications to identify, for instance, only VoIP calls. (The >language >requires companies to adhere to "processing or filtering methods or >procedures applied by a law enforcement agency.") That means police >could >simply ask broadband providers like AT&T, Comcast or Verizon for >wiretap >info--instead of having to figure out what VoIP service was being >used. > >b" Eliminate the current legal requirement saying the Justice >Department must >publish a public "notice of the actual number of communications >interceptions" every year. That notice currently also must disclose >the >"maximum capacity" required to accommodate all of the legally >authorized >taps that government agencies will "conduct and use simultaneously." > >Jim Harper, a policy analyst at the free-market Cato Institute and >member of >a Homeland Security advisory board, said the proposal would "have a >negative >impact on Internet users' privacy." > >"People expect their information to be private unless the government >meets >certain legal standards," Harper said. "Right now the Department of >Justice >is pushing the wrong way on all this." > >Neither the FBI nor DeWine's office responded to a request for comment >Friday afternoon. > >DeWine has relatively low approval ratings--47 percent, according to >SurveyUSA.com--and is enmeshed in a fierce battle with a Democratic >challenger to retain his Senate seat in the November elections. >DeWine is a >member of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee charged with overseeing >electronic >privacy and antiterrorism enforcement and is a former prosecutor in >Ohio. > >A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., decided 2-1 >last >month to uphold the FCC's extension of CALEA to broadband >providers, and >it's not clear what will happen next with the lawsuit. Judge Harry >Edwards >wrote in his dissent that the majority's logic gave the FCC "unlimited >authority to regulate every telecommunications service that might >conceivably be used to assist law enforcement." > >The organizations behind the lawsuit say Congress never intended >CALEA to >force broadband providers--and networks at corporations and >universities--to >build in central surveillance hubs for the police. The list of >organizations >includes Sun Microsystems, Pulver.com, the American Association of >Community >Colleges, the Association of American Universities and the American >Library >Association. > >If the FBI's legislation becomes law, it would derail the lawsuit >because >there would no longer be any question that Congress intended CALEA to >apply >to the Internet. > > > ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen(a)leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[IP] more on FBI plans new Net-tapping push
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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<nettime> icann
by DeeDee Halleck 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

By Michael Roberts Sep 05, 2011 The leaked release of the European Commission's working papers on the future of Top Level Domains highlights the impending collision between adherents of the present "multistakeholder" ICANN governance model, and an ever longer list of national governments who challenge that model. At the core of the controversy is the question of how ICANN can claim legitimacy in the DNS world when none of its Directors or Officers are elected. Even worse, its only answer, when challenged legally, is that it is responsive to its contract with an agency of the U.S. Government, which agency claims authority from the elected Congress of the United States through the agency's organic act, which nowhere mentions the Internet, ICANN, or the Domain Name System .... http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110905_icanns_unelected_crisis/ -- http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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06 Jul '18

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<snip...> --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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<snip...> --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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