More on Cisco Building Surveillance into Routers 469
An anonymous reader writes "The company recently published a proposal that describes how it plans to embed 'lawful interception' capability into its products. Among the highlights: Eavesdropping 'must be undetectable,' and multiple police agencies conducting simultaneous wiretaps must not learn of one another. If an Internet provider uses encryption to preserve its customers' privacy and has access to the encryption keys, it must turn over the intercepted communications to police in a descrambled form." See our earlier story and the RFC for background.
Yes, but ... (Score:5, Funny)
you want privacy? (Score:1, Funny)
Cisco is just being an upstanding and Patriotic American(TM) under the all-American DMCA, CTEA, and PATRIOT Acts, lawfully passed by the Congress Corporation, and signed into American Best-Practices by Chairman Bush.
"Privacy is dead. Get over it." - Scott McNealy
yeah, right... (Score:2, Funny)
Like I'd ever hand over my encryption keys to my ISP.
So, this outlaws quantum encryption then (Score:5, Funny)
Re:1984 (Score:1, Funny)
Those cops... (Score:5, Funny)
Because if they did then all they would do all day is send data to each other through the router about what doughnut, gun, and police force is best...
The funny thing is... I'm an army reserve and Auxiliary Police Officer which means I can make fun of myself!
Re:Big brother (Score:5, Funny)
Re:yeah, right... (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, i did have a lot of porn and various expensise gifts on my credit card, but i dont think that has anything to do with it.
Re:encryption (Score:3, Funny)
You can do better than that! Encrypt the encrypted keyring, ROT-13 it, and hand it over on shuffled, waterlogged punch cards.
That will force them to use their dinner, lunch, and midnight snack computers, as well!
Re:multiple hidden wiretaps... (Score:3, Funny)
police answer yes, badguys answer no.
Re:Big brother (Score:2, Funny)
not funny (Score:2, Funny)
Transcript (Score:3, Funny)
Line 1: Sssh, I can hear something.
Line 2: Hey bob, we got something.
Line 1: It's them!
Line 2: They can hear us!! Quick, drop the hardline.
Line 1: They've gone, call downtown!
Downtown: Oops sorry, we forgot to update the IOS.
nb: laugh