[IP] US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search
David Farber
dave at farber.net
Thu Jan 31 11:17:45 PST 2008
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From: jsq at internetperils.com [jsq at internetperils.com] On Behalf Of John S. Quarterman [jsq at quarterman.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:17 AM
To: David Farber
Cc: John S. Quarterman; ip
Subject: Re: [IP] US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search
Dave, for IP:
The New Yorker article is available in HTML now:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/01/21/080121fa_fact_wright
Bruce Schneier has nailed the "security vs. privacy" canard that
McConnell promotes:
"The debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control."
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/01/securitymatters_0124?currentPage=all&
And while people may think that AT&T should worry about losing liability
protection if it filters all traffic, if McConnell's plan goes through
AT&T and other telcos and cablecos will be able to wrap themselves in
the flag while they're doing it:
http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2008/01/policing-cybers.html
-jsq
> From: Rich Kulawiec [rsk at gsp.org]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:41 PM
> To: Fergie; David Farber; Richard Forno; Lauren Weinstein
> Subject: US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web sear
> ch
>
> Quoting from:
>
> http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_drafting_plan_to_allow_government_01
> 14.html
>
> National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up
> plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate
> on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according
> to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today.
>
> Debate on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act "will be a
> walk in the park compared to this," McConnell said. "this is going
> to be a goat rope on the Hill. My prediction is that we're going
> to screw around with this until something horrendous happens."
>
> The article, which profiles the 65-year-old former admiral
> appointed by President George W. Bush in January 2007 to oversee
> all of America's intelligence agencies, was not published on
> the New Yorker's Web site. (It can be read here in pdf).
>
> [...]
>
> The PDF link points to:
>
> http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WashWire.pdf
>
> which I'm unable to access at the moment.
>
> ---Rsk
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