September 28, 2010, 11:47AM
FBI Wants to Mandate Surveillance Backdoors
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Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to
seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their
ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as
people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Read the full article. [The New York Times]
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This is just not going to work, terrorist can use regular forms of communication that are not encrypted and use there own encryption software to encrypt the message that will be just as useless to the FBI.