War of words rages over Internet taps

War of words rages over Internet taps
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-04-14

The public comment period on a Justice Department proposal to make the Internet easier to wiretap ended Monday with most of the filed comments tracing a clean line between two opposing camps: on the government's side, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies who perform wiretaps, allied with companies who sell surveillance equipment and services; on the other, Internet companies who would be forced by the plan to make changes to their networks, along with advocacy groups concerned about slowed innovation and an incursion on Internet privacy.

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we're monitored... so what? 2004-04-15
Anonymous (3 replies)

we're monitored... so what? 2004-04-16
Anonymous (2 replies)

we're monitored... so what? 2004-04-16
Real life (3 replies)

we're monitored... so what? 2004-04-16
shots (1 replies)

we're monitored... so what? 2004-04-17
Anonymous

we're monitored... so what? 2004-04-18
Real Life? (1 replies)

Grow up. 2004-04-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

Grow up. 2004-04-20
Coldman (1 replies)

some basic reading skills required here 2004-04-20
Anonymous (1 replies)

some basic reading skills required here 2004-04-26
Coldman

we're monitored... so what? 2004-04-18
FBI

RE: we're monitored... so what? 2004-04-16
Anonymous (1 replies)

RE: we're monitored... so what? 2004-04-16
Big brother

Re: we're monitored... so what? 2005-06-24
Anonymous

War of words rages over Internet taps 2004-04-15
Anonymous (2 replies)

War of words rages over Internet taps 2004-04-16
Big brother

War of words rages over Internet taps 2004-04-17
Anonymous

War of words rages over Internet taps 2004-04-16
Anonymous

Vulgarity 2004-04-17
Anonymous

War of words rages over Internet taps 2004-04-18
Anonymous (1 replies)

The beginning of the end 2004-04-19
m0rtalis

War of words rages over Internet taps 2004-04-19
Winston Smith er.. I mean William Ballum (1 replies)

War of words rages over Internet taps 2004-04-20
A grown up

would this create security issues? 2004-04-20
Anonymous

I took this as meaning hadware devices such as routers, firewalls, switches, and also sofware applications that may do the same things would be built with backdoors. If this where trough a phisical serial connection or port on the device, I sopose this would be fine. Though if this is over IP based connections, wouldn't this place a huge security hole in your firewall or router, etc.

Once someone finds a flaw in this or even the way to get into this and posts it on a hack site, won't every script kiddy and hacker be able to start sniffing passwords and whatever else off your network?

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War of words rages over Internet taps 2004-04-20
Anonymous

Set u up.... 2004-04-21
Anonymous

President 2004-04-21
m0rtalis