Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Surveillance State 2.0
(or Welcome to the Panopticon)

The government wants to monitor all Internet communication.  It argues the baddies not longer use telephones which can be tapped.

New York Times article.

Internet Wiretapping Proposal Met With Silence
An Obama administration plan to make wire tapping the Internet easier for law enforcement and national security agencies was met with silence by online companies Monday.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Research in Motion - never shy about issuing press releases - all declined to talk about what would be a major shift in privacy law.
FBI's covering its ass in case of an October surprise? Terrorists win again simply by existing?


Tech Firms Resist India on Software Code Secrets

India basically wants to do the same thing.
The government said it needed to set up a procedure to detect any software embedded in the machines that could be used by foreign governments to spy on or otherwise harm India. Many orders for equipment were stalled for several months and gear from Chinese vendors has been held up for much of the year.

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