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Date: 2000-07-16
Carnivore: Zur Lage an den IT-Schnittstellen-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- genannten SECEDU Mailing List hat angesichts des FBI- Fleischfressers den Flammenwerfer angeworfen. Was freilich der Carnivore für TCP/IP-Networks in den USA ist, kann auch die Blackbox der Holländischen Polizei bei den NL-Providern. Die ETSI-Standards für Abhör- Schnittstellen in digitalen Switched Circuit Networks sind bereits in der dritten Auflage ihrer Modernisierung, die Standardisierung zum Angriff auf das UMTS-Netz hat eine weltweite Allianz von sechs Standardisierern namens Third Generation Partnership auch schon vorbereitet, in der ein *interessantes* Groß/staaten/konglomerat versammelt ist http://www.3gpp.org/ Related http://service.quintessenz.at/archiv/msg01261.html http://service.quintessenz.at/archiv/msg01260.html *************** FLAME ON - BIG TIME ***************** I am afraid that the FBI has now generated the necessary force required to cause all US citizens to encrypt all of their email. Normally, I prefer plaintext email because it is easier to deal with, takes less CPU time, disk space, etc. and doesn't depend on keeping keys in order to read the historical records. But if the government is going to read all my email - as I now believe they have been doing though this mechanism - then I need to encrypt all my email by default - simply to prevent making the mistake of letting someone in the FBI see something that they are not supposed to have access to. For example my emails to my wife when I am out of town are private, as are my communications with my children, as are my communications with government sponsored research I do, as are the discussions I have with folks from all over the world about security issues in their systems. I seem to recall that the FBI has done things like this before. For example, they spied on Martin Luther King to try to dig up dirt on him, and they have been used by politicians for a wide range of purposes in the past. The agents I know kept telling me that those days were over, but apparently they are not. For many years I have decided to trust the critical infrastructure providers with my privacy for normal transactions, not because I think they are particularly trustworthy, but because I figured they were unlikely to aggregate informaiton about me, store it over a long period of time, and because they probably had better things to do. But now that I know that the FBI is listening to it all, and of course I know that they preserve it and are able to search it, I am done with that. I am afraid that all of our jobs in tracking down bad guys is now going to be that much harder, and I am now moving from my longstanding position of only encrypting the really important stuff to encrypting it all - all of the time - by default. For those of you that don't have PGP, I guess you will have to start running it in order to read my emails posted to the list... As an aside, I am now advising all of my clients and the general public to go to automated encryption of all emails all the time. I am also switching all of my mailing lists (over time) to systems that do not run through the FBI's surveillance systems and encrypting all of that traffic using things like secure shell to servers, etc. I would also advise all of the list members in this forum - as well as the list itself - to switch over to the cybercop area: http://cybercop.espgroup.net/ on the espgroup's site: http://www.espgroup.net/ FC > EarthLink will do FBI's surveillances itself > EarthLink today said it has reached an agreement with > the FBI to avoid future use of the email surveillance > device "Carnivore," which disrupted Internet access > for some EarthLink customers earlier this year. The > Atlanta-based company, which has about 4.2 million > subscribers nationwide, said it had installed the > snooping software for the FBI at a data center in > Pasadena, Calif., earlier this year after it lost > a decision on the matter in federal court. > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2257522.html ******************* FLAME OFF ******************** -.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2000-07-16 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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