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Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd)
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 15:17:58 +0200
* uurtamo () ofc-204 arttoday com (steve uurtamo) [Fri 19 Oct 2001, 22:31 CEST]:
(a good isp would have anonymous/encrypted email, browsing, etc., services available to their customers. if they all did, the feds wouldn't be able to get access to the data they want without disrupting service to customers. i'm pretty sure people wouldn't be too keen on that.)
Not keen at all. In some countries in Europe it's already almost impossible for ISPs to provide Secure Shell to their customers, as they are required by law to be able to hand over all data in unencrypted form if possible. Given that the decryption is done at some point they'd have to backdoor their sshd's to log all session keys or even all sessions in plaintext in order to comply... Remember that the feds can bend reality (or, put less wildly, adapt new laws) to suit their needs. -- Niels.
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- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) William Allen Simpson (Oct 18)
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- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) batz (Oct 18)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) William Allen Simpson (Oct 18)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) mike harrison (Oct 18)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Paul Vixie (Oct 19)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Randy Bush (Oct 19)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 19)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) steve uurtamo (Oct 19)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Niels Bakker (Oct 20)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Joseph T. Klein (Oct 19)
- RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Greg Pendergrass (Oct 19)
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- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) mscramer (Oct 23)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Paul Vixie (Oct 24)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Steven J. Sobol (Oct 22)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Jeff Gehlbach (Oct 18)
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