The person that brought this information to the New York Times (James X. Dempsey, vice president of the Center for Democracy and Technology) said:
"The Obama administration intends to present a bill to Congress next year that would require all providers of such services to ensure that they were technically capable of complying with a 'wiretap' or surveillance order, providing access to communications and unscrambling any encrypted information." As Charles pointed out, there has been no bill presented to congress requiring such action. This could be complete speculation. What really makes me think this is BS is that Glen Beck was just on TV talking about it. The reason I bring it up is because it was mentioned by EFF.org. Chris... On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Charles N Wyble <[email protected]> wrote: > I wouldn't be surprised in the least if this is true. I have been pushing > data ownership for some time now and if this is true I will promote how to > own your data even more. The recipe for what I use is at > http://wiki.knownelement.com/index.php/Data_Ownership and is fairly up to > date. > > > > On 09/27/2010 01:43 PM, Chris Penn wrote: >> >> http://lwn.net/Articles/407303/rss >> >> "The New York Times reports on a bill (proposed law) that the Obama >> administration plans to submit to Congress that would require >> communication providers be able to decrypt and provide the data they >> carry on demand, presumably after a court order. "Essentially, >> officials want Congress to require all services that enable >> communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like >> BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software >> that allows direct "peer to peer" messaging like Skype — to be >> technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order. " >> >> Time to encrypt everything personal, if you are not already. >> >> Chris... >> > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
