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 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 clear.  Anything

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” mess

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 ca

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 examp

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