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FBI’s Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed
- bediger4000 14y agoDid they learn nothing from The Athens Affair (http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair)? If not, whose kool aid did the FBI drink to suppose that "We can do better now?" Didn't the FBI learn from the multiple huge failures of software development on The Virtual Case File (http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/who-killed-the-virtual-case-file http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/who-killed-the-v...)?
- Zigurd 14y agoTargeting "lawful intercept" (LI) features made the tap harder to detect. The article says logs played a big role in unraveling the hack, but LI traffic is designed to be hard to detect. that is, system administrators should not be able to know when LI is in use, to guard against insiders tipping off the targets of LI use. This is why it took reverse engineering the code to determine what, exactly, it was doing and which numbers had been targeted.
- bediger4000 14y agoSo you're saying the FBI learned less than nothing, in fact, they got stupider about wiretapping, since The Athens Affair?
- Zigurd 14y agoComplacency. Even Linux distributions don't come with email and voice communications security enabled by default.