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RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:10:48 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Paul Wouters wrote:
The NL has already answered this question last januari. When asked who needs to be tappable, the answer is "everyone who is offering a public internet service".
And they have a strange notion of the word "public" too. I got the distinct impression (but nobody wanted to go on record for anything) they feel the Web server that's under my desk at home provides a "public" service too. So I should be prepared to aid the Dutch government in intercepting my own traffic. Which to me would seem to defeat the purpose, but what do I know?
Tapped data needs to be sent through a special protocol, the Transport of Intercepted IP Traffic (TIIT).
TIIT only specifies the transport protocol, though. There are no restrictions on network topology. As long as you can intercept the traffic (not just email--everything) in your network and deliver it, it's ok. It seems the FBI wants the traffic to flow over a number of centralized locations for easy interception. (I would rather intercept a dozen Gigabit Ethernet connections in different places than a single OC-192 POSIP, but again: what do I know?) See: http://www.interactiveweek.com/article/0,3658,s%3D605%26a%253D16678,00.asp This worries me a great deal. If we as an industry learned anything from September 11th, it is (or should be) that centralized facilities are vulnerable. Iljitsch van Beijnum
Current thread:
- RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd), (continued)
- RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Mike Batchelor (Oct 19)
- 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)
- [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Larry Diffey (Oct 17)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 17)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) jeffrey arnold (Oct 17)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) JC Dill (Oct 17)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 17)
- RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Paul Wouters (Oct 24)
- RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 24)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Christian Kuhtz (Oct 24)
- RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 24)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Paul Wouters (Oct 24)
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