By Jason McCullough on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 07:27 pm:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37203,00.html
'Stewart Baker, an attorney at the Washington D.C.-based Steptoe & Johnson and a former general consul to National Security Agency, said the FBI has plans to change the architecture of the Internet and route traffic through central servers that it would be able to monitor e-mail more easily.'
I'm going to throw up.
By Mark Asher on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 07:33 pm:
Yeah, that's troubling. I hope that's stopped.
By Sparkman on Saturday, October 27, 2001 - 06:08 pm:
Not to mention it makes the Internet a LOT more vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
Stupid.
By Aszurom (Aszurom) on Sunday, October 28, 2001 - 01:36 am:
Well, if it can't decrypt PGP on the fly, it's worthless. I can encrypt stuff pretty hardcore with very little effort... hell, an inventive internet boyscout could think of a zillion ways to defeat something that glances at emails looking for "keywords" for god's sake. For starters, refrain from using "device, bomb, whatever"...
I could send an email saying "Santa Claus is on the moon at midnight" and what the hell is their email sniffer going to make of that? Well, what if that's the "sekrit signalz" to do something?
Sorry, no help there. I think this is Big Brother using the whole thing as an excuse to drive another nail in the coffin of freedom, that's all. Convenience.
By dorky dork on Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 03:31 am:
"Well, if it can't decrypt PGP on the fly, it's worthless. I can encrypt stuff pretty hardcore with very little effort... hell, an inventive internet boyscout could think of a zillion ways to defeat something that glances at emails"
You seem to be missing the point. l33t haX0rs like you are the minority. Most people do not encrypt their e-mail "pretty hardcore." Most people are not "inventive internet boyscouts." Most of the people in the US are going to be adversely affected like this, whether or not a few hardcore computer fetishists can find a way around the system.