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Skriven 2006-07-10 12:29:26 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 12035 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: FBI plans new Net-tapping push
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>

Dewine may not be around much longer

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/local/states/ohio/counties/summit_co
unty/14884162.htm
In the race for U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown, D-Avon, has a commanding
lead over incumbent Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, in a newly released Zogby/Wall
Street Journal online poll.

The poll shows Brown ahead 46.7 percent to DeWine's 34 percent with a margin of
error of plus or minus 3.3 percent.



"Gary Britt" <glb@gencog.com> wrote in message news:44b275ee$1@w3.nls.net...
> Is this the same idiot Mike Dewiner that sat crying on the judiciary
> committee over the nomination of a very solid and demonstrably capable UN
> Ambassador Bolton.  No tears for privacy?
>
> I don't mind wire tapping abilities like the phone companies already
> provide, but I draw the line at a listening device built into my personal
> phone located inside my home.  I have similar feelings about tapping
> internet traffic.
>
> Gary
>
> "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:44b23fc8$1@w3.nls.net...
>>
>> http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6091942.html?part=rss&tag=6091942&subj=news
>>
>> The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet
>> service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and
>> force makers of networking gear to build in backdoors for eavesdropping,
>> CNET News.com has learned.
>>
>> FBI Agent Barry Smith distributed the proposal at a private meeting last
>> Friday with industry representatives and indicated it would be introduced
>> by Sen. Mike DeWine, an Ohio Republican, according to two sources
>> familiar with the meeting.
>>
>> The 27-page proposed CALEA amendments seen by CNET News.com would:
>>
>> . Require any manufacturer of "routing" and "addressing" hardware to
>> offer upgrades or other "modifications" that are needed to support
>> Internet wiretapping. Current law does require that of telephone switch
>> manufacturers--but not makers of routers and network address translation
>> hardware like Cisco Systems and 2Wire.
>>
>> . Authorize the expansion of wiretapping requirements to "commercial"
>> Internet services including instant messaging if the FCC deems it to be
>> in the "public interest." That would likely sweep in services such as
>> in-game chats offered by Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming system as well.
>>
>> . Force Internet service providers to sift through their customers'
>> communications to identify, for instance, only VoIP calls. (The language
>> requires companies to adhere to "processing or filtering methods or
>> procedures applied by a law enforcement agency.") That means police could
>> simply ask broadband providers like AT&T, Comcast or Verizon for wiretap
>> info--instead of having to figure out what VoIP service was being used.
>>
>> . Eliminate the current legal requirement saying the Justice Department
>> must publish a public "notice of the actual number of communications
>> interceptions" every year. That notice currently also must disclose the
>> "maximum capacity" required to accommodate all of the legally authorized
>> taps that government agencies will "conduct and use simultaneously."
>>
>> Jim Harper, a policy analyst at the free-market Cato Institute and member
>> of a Homeland Security advisory board, said the proposal would "have a
>> negative impact on Internet users' privacy."
>>
>>
>
>

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