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I'm no expert. Can anyone think of a set of circumstances under which this power could be reasonably used? Alternatively, can anyone think of a likely misuse o
by hughprime 17y ago
I'm no expert. Can anyone think of a set of circumstances under which this power could be reasonably used?
Alternatively, can anyone think of a likely misuse of this power? (I'm not talking black-helicopter stuff here, just standard-issue governmental overreaching).
- silentOpen 17y agoMisuse: the shutdown switch or codes aren't properly secured and Foreign Enemy X shuts down your country's internet throwing it into chaos. Introducing systemic weakness isn't the answer when you're trying to strengthen your network, strengthening your network is the answer.
- wmf 17y agoLet's hope they don't try to automate this; CALEA was complex and expensive enough.
- tptacek 17y agoAnd CALEA narrowly impacted on the tiny minority of systems that directly worked with voice communications. The tinfoil hat interpretation of this capability would cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
- TrevorJ 17y agoWell, I'd think that being at war would be a good excuse. War on terror, war on drugs. I'd think there's plenty of excuses there.