"FCC approves Net-wiretapping taxes"
John Navas
Broadband providers and Internet phone companies will have to pick up
the tab for the cost of building in mandatory wiretap access for
police surveillance, federal regulators ruled Wednesday.
The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to levy what
likely will amount to wiretapping taxes on companies, municipalities
and universities, saying it would create an incentive for them to
keep costs down and that it was necessary to fight the war on terror.
Universities have estimated their cost to be about $7 billion.
"The first obligation is...the safety of the people," said FCC
Commissioner Michael Copps, a Democrat. "This commission supports
efforts to protect the public safety and homeland security of the
United States and its people."
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Brad Allen
> Broadband providers and Internet phone companies will have to pick
> up the tab for the cost of building in mandatory wiretap access
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Which we have become aware of but never liked. (For the record, I do
NOT consent to any illegal activity on the part of the government, and
that includes spying on me; my awareness of the possibility of any
illegal activities does not infer consent to such; this is NOT Mexico,
so don't even THINK of treating us like Mexicans or else I'll gut you
and your loved ones fast!)
> for police surveillance, federal regulators ruled Wednesday.
>
> The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to levy
> what likely will amount to wiretapping taxes on companies,
> municipalities and universities, saying it would create an
> incentive for them to keep costs down and that it was necessary to
> fight the war on terror.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Or whatever else??
> Universities have estimated their cost to be about $7 billion.
>
> "The first obligation is...the safety of the people," said FCC
> Commissioner Michael Copps, a Democrat. "This commission supports
> efforts to protect the public safety and homeland security of the
> United States and its people."
Meaning they are pushing this further, which brought up my real
concerns:
Since USA Government is hell-bent on selling out its own country
(acting as a traitor to itself) and working against the power of the
middle class by supporting the importing of illegal aliens to
destabilize power (including resources) of citizens, would it be
considered wiretap-worthy to look at the data of someone who is a
patriot who is against traitors like the current Pres. Bush and is
attempting to work as much by the rules as possible to save our
country?
It is not only possible, but entirely too easy to imagine situations
in which being spied upon within our own country by our government
would not be in the best interest of the people, the government, its
citizens, etc.. Therefore, what are the best methods to avoid this
type of problem?
I know that developing RFCs and use of them that use much heavier
encryption would help, but right now, we're in a morass of stilted
development that's been around since about 1990 which leaves us with
lots of insecure spots, so my question is still unfortunately very
pertinent. Luckily, I don't currently do anything heavily different
from any other patriot, but how far the government will go in the
future with whatever situations come up is still a concern, so I am
still concerned about knowing whatever there is to know about this.
Once again, it would be nice to have dark fiber to the home.
Deathstar is, of course, hell-bent against rushing that, too.
John Navas
In <445960e3$0$65455$742e...@news.sonic.net> on 04 May 2006 02:03:15 GMT,
ul...@I.Q.NET (Brad Allen) wrote:
>I know that developing RFCs and use of them that use much heavier
>encryption would help, but right now, we're in a morass of stilted
>development that's been around since about 1990 which leaves us with
>lots of insecure spots, so my question is still unfortunately very
>pertinent. ...
Highly secure email is readily available -- check out S/MIME and OpenPGP.
<http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openpgp>