Eugene Leitl wrote:
October 18, 2001 Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps By Max Smetannikov
Expect the FBI to expand its Internet wiretapping program, says a source familiar with the plan.
Stewart Baker, a partner with law firm Steptoe & Johnson, is a former general counsel to the National Security Agency. He says the FBI has spent the last two years developing a new surveillance architecture that would concentrate Internet traffic in several key locations where all packets, not just e-mail, could be wiretapped. It is now planning to begin implementing this architecture using the powers it has under existing wiretapping laws.
God, how dumb can you get? Not only is this a systematic, police-state invasion of privacy with international repercussions, but it defeats the purpose of the redundant, distributed Internet architecture. The invasion of privacy can be defeated by strong encryption and other measures discussed on this list, but the vulnerability created by concentrating data links can only be fixed by setting up high-bandwidth channels that bypass US jurisdiction. Marc de Piolenc Philippines