the feds are 'coming for you' on xbox live.
 

the FBI is trying to 'open up' the law on tapping in to communications and xbox live was mentioned as a possible resource for 'detection of illegal activitys' :erm:


source: spong.com

http://spong.com/x?art=6442

Re: the feds are 'coming for you' on xbox live.
 

CNET's "News.Com" report that a few weeks ago:

http://news.com.com/2100-1028-5172948.html

I think they'll probably get their way...

The PATRIOT Act has already got rid of a lot of the safeguards of the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), so I can't see BushCo having any qualms about making surveillance even more easy. Liberty seems to take a second place to "security" now. Oh, and FCC Chairman Michael Powell is the son of Dubya's Secretary of State, Colin Powell...

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O the joys of free speech...

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hmm.... so which forum member is an FBI officer then...? Come on, own up! :pp

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*cough ;)

the land of the 'free' eh ? :rolleyes:

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God Bless America *sigh*

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So what are they going to hear?
Discussions about weapons & tactics? Hmm, I think that may be part of the gaming...lol

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Paranoia knows no bounds.
So now are gamers are at risk of arrest if they come up with key words inadvertantly?Will they be arresting young teens?

Scary!!

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The thing is, onXBL the key words that are likely to be hit upon are also words that can be used from within gaming strategy talks.

In fact you can discuss a whole attack on a building somewhere under the guise of a game & its hard to tell.

Ah well.. I wonder how our human rights etc come into this?

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I dont see the point to this. I thought M$ checked to see if you were using illegal bios and banned you from live anyway so this has to be a hoax

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Its nothing to do with that, its to do with the US paranoia that we are all conspiring against them & our most secret conversations will be listened to, recorded & analized, flagged up & reviewed all in the name of US security.

And they get to deny us our rights to some privacy because uncle Bill is mates with Uncle George & they all want to know what we say in case we are plotting against them.

So next time you are having fun & saying how you would like to deop a nuclear bomb on the Embassy (ghost Recon) then beware as you will be instantly identified & visited by the invisible men in Black, watching & listening in on your game (you think thats just "lag"?), knocking at your door, carting you off should you happen to say it a lot.

Perhaps its time to start talking in code on XBL.
I bought the Apples (I have grenades)
I have bad wind (I have teargas, so wear a gas mask)
get on thier t*ts ( frontal assault)
give it to them up the batty (rear assult)
Its ging-gang-gooly time (camp & sniper the enemy).

etc :D :D

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I can understand the need for any country's need for security and monitoring of certain groups or people. But since Sept 11th the U.S. of A**holes have completely lost the plot.:Yikes:
If it moves shoot it, if it don't move still shoot it ......cos you never know!

As for Human rights and Liberty thats just B.S. that they drag out when it suits their cause. When it doesn't suit it's like none of those rights ever existed.:mad:


As for Xbox live..watch out all those of you who play crimson skies.. God knows how they'd interpret some of the chat on that game.... probly think your practicing for another big aerial attack.

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excellent, apart from the fact you've just made the code public :dozey:

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True. I don't see how they'd get any usable info from monitoring anything people say on XBL, especially as the main games played are shooters like CS, GRIT, RS3 etc.

I can understand why they would want to monitor other VoIP stuff, although the whole thing is still an invasion of privacy IMO.


Erm? :confused:

This has *nothing* to do with trying to use an illegal BIOS / modded XBox on XBL.

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Then why are you so bothered then. Are you worried there checking your game stats and seeing how bad they are. NO well who cares they can't check anything outside the US of A anyway and I doubt any decent gamer would be using US servers anyway

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Because it's yet another invasion of privacy.

What will they look/listen for? What will they do with it? Why do they want it? What safeguards will there be? What requirements would need to be met for them to access the data?

Yes, in reality it may not really amount to much (what can they really gleam from what people say on XBL), but it's still another unwarranted intrusion.

Plus, as the article said, if this goes through, then costs of affected services could go up to compensate for them having to be reworked to enable this.

And, it isn't just XBL they are talking about. It's also instant messenging, & various Voice over IP apps.

"ready access to any form of Internet-based communications"

Ooh, cutting :rolleyes:

Nope, if they want to see how bad my stats are, all they have to do is check the XBox.com website.

Who says they can't/won't check anything outside the US?

"doubt any decent gamer would be using US servers anyway" lol :rolleyes:

While there are servers in the US, & the UK, & elsewhere, the whole thing is still one network. You can play with & speak to people from all over the world, including the US.

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I'm more worried about that extra milliseconds worth of lag thats going to be introduced because of it. :D