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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd)
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Paul Wouters wrote: > The NL has already answered this question last januari. When asked who > needs to be tappable, the answer is "everyone who is offering a public > internet service". And they have a strange notion of the word "public" too. I got the distinct impression (but nobody wanted to go on record for anything) they feel the Web server that's under my desk at home provides a "public" service too. So I should be prepared to aid the Dutch government in intercepting my own traffic. Which to me would seem to defeat the purpose, but what do I know? > Tapped data needs to be sent through a special protocol, the Transport of > Intercepted IP Traffic (TIIT). TIIT only specifies the transport protocol, though. There are no restrictions on network topology. As long as you can intercept the traffic (not just email--everything) in your network and deliver it, it's ok. It seems the FBI wants the traffic to flow over a number of centralized locations for easy interception. (I would rather intercept a dozen Gigabit Ethernet connections in different places than a single OC-192 POSIP, but again: what do I know?) See: http://www.interactiveweek.com/article/0,3658,s%3D605%26a%253D16678,00.asp This worries me a great deal. If we as an industry learned anything from September 11th, it is (or should be) that centralized facilities are vulnerable. Iljitsch van Beijnum
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