Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-23 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:53:11PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I was going to stay out of the discussion, but I think you mean me, Geoff, right? Yes. If so, we were not such bad guys - we didn't mine the contents, nor were we actually interested in the values of any packet header fields.

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/08/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's face it, if I picked a go code of buy (some number) of (drug name) at (some price) from our supplier in (country name) no one would take a second notice. The numbers could be times, dates, or addresses, the drug names represent

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007, Gadi Cohen wrote about Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses: Exactly, but that's just the point... in any sane democracy there are structures in place to prevent such abuses taking place. Like before I gave my example of police needing

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: However, look at the other powers the police have, which are far more serious than searching of evesdropping. The police have guns, and can shoot you, for example. Before a policeman shoots you, does he need to get written authorization from a judge? No, of course not. But

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-21 Thread Amos Shapira
On 21/08/07, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the above law could be improved by saying, for example, that anyone whose records are pulled will have to be notified (preferably by an automatic system) as soon as the investigation can allow it, but never later than a month after the

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-21 Thread Omer Zak
The following movie of the day is pertinent to the discussion, and is even a bit on-topic (there is a penguin, if you look carefully!): http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=386 -- In civilized societies, captions are as important in movies as soundtracks, professional photography and expert editing. My

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-20 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:22:51AM +0200, Moshe Leibovitch wrote: I'm wonder if the Israeli law allows you to encrypt your communications over public channels. I wouldn't shock me to find out the even this discussion is illegal :) There was a law that permitted encryption by private parties

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-20 Thread Gadi Cohen
Nadav Har'El wrote: It doesn't make us a totalitarian state, unless the police actually (ab)uses this power, and so far, I don't think that it actually does. Exactly, but that's just the point... in any sane democracy there are structures in place to prevent such abuses taking place. Like

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-20 Thread Oded Arbel
slightly less [OT] - read to the end. On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 02:22 +0200, Moshe Leibovitch wrote: I'm wonder if the Israeli law allows you to encrypt your communications over public channels. I wouldn't shock me to find out the even this discussion is illegal :) Some relevant links:

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-20 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not just data mining email, one of the people on this list, and I won't name them if they wish to remain out of the discussion, around 4 years ago worked for a startup that almost produced a product that data mined real time communicaitons.

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-20 Thread Ehud Karni
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:59:17 Oded Arbel wrote: slightly less [OT] - read to the end. On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 02:22 +0200, Moshe Leibovitch wrote: I'm wonder if the Israeli law allows you to encrypt your communications over public channels. I wouldn't shock me to find out the even this

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-20 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 22:17 +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: I have an (official ?) email from the IMOD Encryption Control Director that exempt any individual or company that uses e-mail encryption for its own needs, as long as the user or company is not in encryption business. This is very

[OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-19 Thread Gadi Cohen
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/894512.html In short: There is a law presently being passed that will give the police free access to all phone numbers, IP addresses, etc, creating the largest such database for police use in the entire Western World (i.e. Israel will set a new precedent for

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-19 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Gadi Cohen wrote: Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:03:09 +0300 From: Gadi Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IGLU Mailing list linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/894512.html In short

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In addition, stop using your ISP's email, use either GMAIL or HOTMAIL or whatever you like. As YBA suggested, encrypt email. Use steganography. Use pigeons. Smile at the camera, while you're at it. Marc = To unsubscribe, send

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-19 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use pigeons. Sorry, we've had all the pigeons wired last week. This change takes away the illusion of privacy you had nothing more. Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] Codefidence. A name you can trust(tm) http://www.codefidence.com Phone: +972.3.7515563

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Gadi Cohen wrote: In short: There is a law presently being passed that will give the police free access to all phone numbers, IP addresses, etc, creating the largest such database for police use in the entire Western World (i.e. Israel will set a new precedent for what is

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-19 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/08/07, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: far less opposed to giving the police more search power. It doesn't make us a totalitarian state, unless the police actually (ab)uses this power, and so far, I don't think that it actually does. There is also the issue of having all the

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-19 Thread Moshe Leibovitch
I'm wonder if the Israeli law allows you to encrypt your communications over public channels. I wouldn't shock me to find out the even this discussion is illegal :) On 20/08/2007 01:03, Amos Shapira wrote: On 20/08/07, *Nadav Har'El* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: far

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-19 Thread Marc Volovic
IANAL, but if I remember correctly, the answer is that it is not only forbidden to encrypt a message, it is even forbidden to modulate a message (i.e. change the signal), without due permission from the relevant ministry. In effect, by using such problematic and scurrilous items as voice mail