Martin Visser wrote:
Kevin The physical links to the rest of the Internet are not some vapourish, unfathomable sort of web. They are real bits of optical fibre cabling (with a smattering of satellite for backup) that terminate on real routers in real data centres. They are certainly enumerable, probably only numbering in a few hundreds at most. Already every large ISP and phone carrier will have some sort of demarc room that allows the feds, state police or spooks to execute wiretapping warrants. Given the judicial go-ahead, a little time and resources pretty much any digital communication is already traceable and able to captured for whatever analysis.
There are only 4 or 5 links to the greater internet (be it USA or Asia), with links to PNG and new caledonia.
Regardless, by making filtering law the government makes it a requirement for ISP's to filter the customers. Its not the governments responsibility to come up with the details solution for each ISP. However they will be able to investigate that this lawful filtering is in place with penalties for failure to comply.
Obviously small fish may struggle with this, but no doubt big fish will be happy to provide it (at a fee of course).
This is no different to the interception laws which already are required of the ISPs.
Yes the feds can tap your phone and internet connection, without informing you.
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