FBI to get power to veto consumer software that lacks "back door"

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FBI to get veto power over PC software?
September 27, 2005 11:37 AM PDT

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No, really. In an obscure "policy" document released around 9 p.m. ET last Friday, the FCC announced this remarkable decision.

According to the three-page document, to preserve the openness that characterizes today's Internet, "consumers are entitled to run applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement." Read the last seven words again.

The FCC didn't offer much in the way of clarification. But the clearest reading of the pronouncement is that some unelected bureaucrats at the commission have decreeed that Americans don't have the right to use software such as Skype or PGPfone if it doesn't support mandatory backdoors for wiretapping. (That interpretation was confirmed by an FCC spokesman on Monday, who asked not to be identified by name. Also, the announcement came at the same time as the FCC posted its wiretapping rules for Internet telephony.)

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. . . where federal law states that it is the policy of the United States to preserve a free market for Internet services "unfettered by federal or state regulation," the bureaucrats have adroitly interpreted that to mean precisely the opposite of Congress said. Ain't that clever?

But there's a mean looking man in a brown shirt knocking on the door. Gotta go...

has figured out how to screw us over. Thanks for some more good news....LOL. K & R-ing.

they should do some research on "promis" and "postel".
These are two unrelated cases.

between "prisoners".

It appears we won't stop them listening. Much as I condemn the infringement of my rights, I'm not about to let these un-American bastards stop me from saying what I want, when and where I want. And I say Bush** is a fucking dictator in charge of a Gang of Pricks (GOP) who do nothing but lie and murder to advance their imperial wet-dreams. Heil Bush**! Come and get me, mother fuckers, I don't care, the Bush** regime will NEVER kill the American Dream in my heart...I guarantee when I die it'll be as a true American, while you'll go down in history as loathed traitors to this country and everything honest and good it once stood for!!

we will be required to use software specifically designed to be vulnerable to hackers and viruses?

Yeah, that's a good idea. :sarcasm:

out of buisness. How is any American software going to be able to be sold overseas if back doors are required? How is any American software going to be able to compete with foreign software that doesn't require back doors?

Why not just CC: every communication we post.
In fact, to show we are patriots lets send the 23 million
posts from the archives and go from their.

Confused though. I thought NSA was busy with our
personal communications.

What if FBI is trying to listen and gets a busy signal
because NSA is already trying to listening and can't
because Homeland Security dialed in first?
Oh shit oh dear.

Oh yeah:
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ramble on a bit with their "I've got nothing to hide", then ask them if they'll feel the same way when a democrat is elected.

..."if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear," I have this overpowering urge to walk into their bedrooms and empty out their sock drawer on the living room floor.

Nothing to hide, indeed.

Whooooooooooshhhhhhhh.

That's the sound of the life getting sucked out of the U.S. software industry.

The future belongs to China and India, and computer nerds writing free software in Europe will blow away whatever's left of us.