[azipa] FBI and ISP Surv...

[J.Francois]

Anyone know of any local IPs effected.
AOL and Earthlink do not count.
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National Journal's Technology Daily

PM Edition

October 16, 2001

HEADLINE: PRIVACY: FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems

PHOENIX -- The FBI is in the process of finalizing technical guidelines 
that would require all Internet service providers (ISPS) to reconfigure 
their e-mail systems so they could be more easily accessible to law 
enforcers. The move, to be completed over the next two months, would cause 
ISPs to act as phone companies do to comply with a 1994 digital-wiretapping 
law. "They are in the process of developing a very detailed set of 
standards for how to make packet data" available to the FBI, said Stewart 
Baker, an attorney at Steptoe & Johnson who was formerly the chief counsel 
to the National Security Agency (NSA).

The proposal is not a part of the anti-terrorism legislation currently 
before Congress because the agency is expected to argue that the 
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) already grants it 
the authority to impose the requirement, Baker said. He added that some 
ISPs already meet the requirements.

Baker, who frequently represents Internet companies being asked to conduct 
electronic surveillance for the FBI, made the revelation Tuesday in a panel 
discussion at the Agenda 2002 conference here on how the Sept. 11 terrorist 
attacks are likely to affect the technology industry and civil liberties. 
He elaborated on the plan in an interview.

[...]

Mitchell Kapor, chairman of the Open Source Application Foundation and a 
founder of Lotus Development, also spoke on the panel. Kapor also started 
the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and has been a vocal advocate of 
Internet privacy. EFF played a significant role in the CALEA debate, and 
divisions over whether to support that law led to a split of the 
organization. [...] "I find myself more in the middle than I used to 
because my identity in life is not as a civil liberties advocate," Kapor 
said. "Part is being an American and a world citizen." [...]

Kapor and Baker shared more common ground on the acceptability of new 
electronic surveillance than they had in the past, with both expressing the 
view that now is a time for calm reconsideration of positions rather than 
butting horns over the details of how civil liberties would be curtailed by an
anti-terrorism bill.

[...]

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Jean Francois - JLF Sends...
My MagusNet Public Proxy In the News:
http://www.missinformation.com/Archives/ReadArchives.dbm?ID=352&GetCategories=None
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/09/12/ebrief.htm
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/14/privacy/index.html
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/sep2001/isp-s24.shtml
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/260/business/New_wiretap_rules_may_alter_Internet_s_landscape+.shtml


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