Re: Obama administration revives Draconian communications intercept plans

2010-09-29 Thread Josh Rubin
On 9/28/2010 1:47 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer”

Re: Obama administration revives Draconian communications intercept plans

2010-09-29 Thread Ken Buchanan
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: Isn't this just a clarification of existing CALEA practice? In most jurisdictions, if a communications services provider is served an order to make available communications, it is required by law to provide it in the

Re: Obama administration revives Draconian communications intercept plans

2010-09-28 Thread Florian Weimer
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype — to be technically

Obama administration revives Draconian communications intercept plans

2010-09-27 Thread Perry E. Metzger
[Moderator's note: there are messages still in the queue that will go out later today, but I felt this had to go out ASAP --Perry] From the New York Times, word that the Obama administration wants to compel access to encrypted communications. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html

Re: Obama administration revives Draconian communications intercept plans

2010-09-27 Thread David G. Koontz
On 28/09/10 1:26 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: From the New York Times, word that the Obama administration wants to compel access to encrypted communications. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html Someone should beat up the FBI for using specious arguments: But as an example,