[IP] US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: jsq@internetperils.com [jsq@internetperils.com] On Behalf Of John S. Quarterman [jsq@quarterman.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:17 AM
To: David Farber
Cc: John S. Quarterman; ip
Subject: Re: [IP] US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search

Dave, for IP:

The New Yorker article is available in HTML now:

 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/01/21/080121fa_fact_wright

Bruce Schneier has nailed the "security vs. privacy" canard that
McConnell promotes:

 "The debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control."

 http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/01/securitymatters_0124?currentPage=all&;

And while people may think that AT&T should worry about losing liability
protection if it filters all traffic, if McConnell's plan goes through
AT&T and other telcos and cablecos will be able to wrap themselves in
the flag while they're doing it:

 http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2008/01/policing-cybers.html

-jsq


> From: Rich Kulawiec [rsk@gsp.org]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:41 PM
> To: Fergie; David Farber; Richard Forno; Lauren Weinstein
> Subject: US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web sear
> ch
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> Quoting from:
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>         http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_drafting_plan_to_allow_government_01
> 14.html
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>         National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up
>         plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate
>         on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according
>         to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today.
>
>         Debate on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act "will be a
>         walk in the park compared to this," McConnell said. "this is going
>         to be a goat rope on the Hill. My prediction is that we're going
>         to screw around with this until something horrendous happens."
>
>         The article, which profiles the 65-year-old former admiral
>         appointed by President George W. Bush in January 2007 to oversee
>         all of America's intelligence agencies, was not published on
>         the New Yorker's Web site. (It can be read here in pdf).
>
>         [...]
>
> The PDF link points to:
>
>         http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WashWire.pdf
>
> which I'm unable to access at the moment.
>
> ---Rsk

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