Even more government control, and over reach through regulation, this time wiretaps for online communication. This is the third separate area today alone. I think things are speeding up…
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Wiretapped phones, now Internet?
To better track criminals, U.S. wants to be able to wiretap online communications.
WASHINGTON – Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations of the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone.
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters such as BlackBerry, social networking websites such as Facebook and software that allows direct “peer-to-peer” messaging such as Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order. The mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages.
The American U.N. delegation actually walked out of the assembly hall after the Iranian president claimed that some in the world have speculated that Americans were actually behind the September 11, 2001, terror attacks and that it was a staged attempt to assure Israel’s survival.
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