About a month ago, news broke that the feds were going to push for fresh legislation that would <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100927/10481011183/feds-pushing-for-fresh-legally-required-wiretap-backdoor-to-all-internet-communications.shtml”>require wiretapping backdoors</a> be place into all forms of internet communications. This is a terrible thought for any number of reasons — including the circumstance that this would constitute it <i>much simpler</i> for <i>others</i> to spy on the communications of Americans. However, all indications are that the feds (exceptionally the NSA, who wants to pretend they’re “protecting” Americans from security issues, while really just wanting to <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101026/04340211587/how-the-defense-department-and-nsa-is-hyping-cyberwar-to-bigger-spy-on-you.shtml”>spy on more Americans</a>) are going to push forward anyway.
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Part of the justification for the push for such wiretapping mandates is that fresh technology has made it much more dense for code enforcement to to intercept necessary data. So the EFF made a simple request: <b>prove it</b>. It filed a Freedom of Data Act request for the evidence that fresh technologies were really hindering code enforcement. However, the US administration apparently ignored the request, leading the EFF <a href=”https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/10/28″ target=”_blank”>to sue the administration over its failure to respond to the request</a>.
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“The sweeping changes the administration is proposing, to require ‘back doors’ into all private communications technologies, would have enormous privacy and security ramifications for American Internet users,” said EFF Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch. “Any meaningful debate must be based on the data we’re seeking in the FOIA requests, so the administration’s failure to comply in a timely manner is troubling.”
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