the comments in this story are informative and one person compares the Phorm/Advertsing companies to a ...
well ill let you read and comment on it
there, as i dont think its good to bring such things into this longest informative thread...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...ref=technology
heres the 3 main US news stories ragarding the FBIs interception plans.... something to consider for the longer term, given the UK always wants to follow the US in many things.
9.
April 25th,
2008
11:41 pm
The response from the ‘Paranoia Choir’ comes in the form of:
http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-992...=TheIconoclast
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These are remarkable statements. The clearest reading of them points to
deep packet inspection of network traffic--akin to the measures Comcast took against BitTorrent and to what
Phorm in the United Kingdom has done, in terms of advertising--plus additional processing to detect and thwart any "illegal activity." (See the
complete transcript here.)
"That's very troubling," said Greg Nojeim, director of the project on freedom, security, and technology at the
Center for Democracy and Technology. "It could be an effort to achieve, through unknowing consent, permission to monitor communications in a way that would otherwise be prohibited by law."
Unfortunately, neither Issa nor Mueller recognized that such a plan is probably illegal.
California law, for instance, says anyone who "intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication" conducts electronic surveillance shall be imprisoned for one year. (I say "probably illegal" because their exchange didn't offer much in the way of details.)
"I think there's a substantial problem with what Mueller's proposing," said
Al Gidari, a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm who represents telecommunications providers.
"He forgets the states have the power to pass more restrictive rules, and
12 of them have.
He also forgets that we live in a global world, and the rest of the world doesn't quite see eye to eye on this issue. That consent would be of dubious validity in Europe, for instance, where many of our customers reside."
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http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-992...=TheIconoclast
http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-992...=TheIconoclast
I’m sure these will provide the discerning reader with more than just a bit of ‘discordant harmonies’.
— Posted by J. M. Schneider, Chicago, IL