Text 13645, 87 rader
Skriven 2005-06-19 19:05:36 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 13638 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: KEEP THE PATRIOT ACT
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Jeff Binkley -> John Massey wrote:

 JM>> 
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 JM>> "Alan Hess -> all" <1:261/1000> wrote in message
 JM>> news:11570$POLITICS@JamNNTPd...
 AH>>> It aids in the war on terror.
 AH>>> ********

 AH>>> I've posted views from both sides of the debate.  Personally, I
 AH>>> think some aspects of the Patriot Act infringe too much on our
 AH>>> civil liberties.  Some aspects don't (such as allowing
 AH>>> intelligence and law enforcement to share information.)  Let's
 AH>>> see if Congress can strike a good balance.
 AH>>> ********

 JM>> We had better watch everything. Even with Republicans in charge we
 JM>> still are getting threats to our privacy

 JM>> The Bush Administration, through the Justice Department, is
 JM>> considering the idea of having your Internet service provider keep a
 JM>> record of your activities on the internet.  Why would the Justice
 JM>> Department want your ISP to keep a record of your Internet
 JM>> activities?  That's not hard to figure out.  The feds might want to
 JM>> give them a look-see to see what you've been up to!


 JM>> Your ISP as Net watchdog
 JM>> Published: June 16, 2005, 4:00 AM PDT
 JM>> By Declan McCullagh
 JM>> Staff Writer, CNET News.com

 JM>> The U.S. Department of Justice is quietly shopping around the
 JM>> explosive idea of requiring Internet service providers to retain
 JM>> records of their customers' online activities.
 JM>> Data retention rules could permit police to obtain records of e-mail
 JM>> chatter, Web browsing or chat-room activity months after Internet
 JM>> providers ordinarily would have deleted the logs--that is, if logs
 JM>> were ever kept in the first place. No U.S. law currently mandates
 JM>> that such logs be kept.


 JM>> More at:
 JM>> http://news.com.com/Your+ISP+as+Net+watchdog/2100-1028_3-5748649.html

 JB> This is impossible with today's technology.  It doesn't scale to provide
 JB> the level of detail necessary to actually provide anything beyond IP
 JB> address connected to another IP address on a specific port number at a
 JB> specific time.  They don't have the capability to record session level
 JB> data and encryption technologies like SSL make it nearly impossible,
 JB> except under some very specific conditions.  I believe the letter you
 JB> forwarded was a hoax.

Depends on how its implemented.

ISP's can get into your email when they want, they can even place your account
under surveillance. Email can also easily be forwarded to another address
without the user even being aware. Unless of course you use a third party
encryption program. Then they would have a hard time understanding the email.

FTP is easy to crack. Of course you could use SSH.

Spyware often routinely keeps track of where you surf, some ISP's even have
software you can install that keeps track of your average connection speed to
websites you travel too. They can easily set that up without you even being
aware.

As I am sure you know, SSL is not engaged and operating in most of your web
activity.

Instant messengers are buggy as heck and have had all sorts of security
problems with people being able to take over accounts, or have simple keystroke
copiers send text to them of what you type.

And as you pointed out, they can find out where you go through IP's, then
request the ISP forward all incoming and outgoing email to them. They could
send you a trojan horse that could set up shop on your PC and do or keep track
of whatever, all with the cooperation of your ISP, not to mention spyware they
could create and use.

If you use PGP for your email, Adawre, Spybot, Spyware Blaster for spyware, SSH
for FTPing, firewall, anti-virus and just not use instant messengers, you will
probably be safe from their sniffing.

But what average user will know to do even a small part of it?

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