The FBI and it’s recent, well, thingy
Tags :Announcement
There was an interesting read in the weekend
paper that can be found right
here for now (before they move it
to archives). It isn't a long article but follows on the heels of
one they did a very short time ago on the same topic.
This month, the FBI
unveiled a plan to require all U.S. broadband providers, including cable
and DSL companies, to rewire their Internet networks to make it easier
for police agencies to intercept messages.
Within hours of receiving the proposal
on March 12, the Federal Communications Commission announced that the public
had 30 days to send in comments before the commission takes up the plan.
A vote is expected this summer and final action is possible by next year.
In St. Louis, the largest broadband
companies are SBC and Charter Communications. They say they are still trying
to figure out what the FBI's plan would cost them.
The FBI recommends on the askcalea.com
site that everyone read the 71
page document to fully understand
what the heck they are talking about. They are targeting packet mode
transmissions in the likes of servers and routers, but instead of giving
illustrations of what types that covers, they did not list any so people
wouldn't think that was the only list of transmissions that were being
targeted. I honestly tried reading the document but found that it
went in numerous circles, saying the same thing forty ways in different
paragraphs with little subsections that threw you off that were not placed
in the appendix, but in the RFP itself.
NOTE: I wanted to provide
this simply as informational! I am not saying any of it is good, bad or
should be hornswaggled out back with wet noodle.
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On Monday, March 29th, 2004 by Chris Miller
