Feds to Telecoms: Stop Upgrading so We Can Wiretap More Easily

[mrjarrell]

Awwww. Poor .gov can't keep up with technology so they want to slow things down and insert lots of back doors so they can more easily invade peoples privacy. All in the name of the War on People. If government can't keep up, well that's just too danged bad. Sorry that technology is getting in the way of your grasping for power. No wonder we can't make it back to the moon.

Feds to Telecoms: Stop Upgrading so We Can Wiretap More Easily

 

[Ramen]

And all of the technology blogs are screaming for net neutrality.

It sounds like a great idea to give power over the internet to the people who can't keep up with the ever changing technology.

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

At one time, the techies for the NSA and its sister agencies were ahead of the tech curve where they didn't need "back doors" into systems - they had straight hacks into them. When the digital age occurred, technologies started expanding quicker than the techies could keep up and there was somewhat of a limiting of budgets, so not enough techies were hired (or so the .gov felt) to stay ahead of the curve. The answer was to go to the companies making whatever widget and encourage or force them to give access to whatever signals the .gov felt it needed. Some that didn't play ball with the .gov, like QWEST and its owner, were basically forced out of business.

At one time, the .gov tried to tell inventors of cryptologic devices/software that their products couldn't be marketed until it was submitted to the .gov to figure out how to "break" the product in everyday use or the inventor gave them the "master key" to decode a signal at their leisure. Those that did, sold their product. Those that didn't, shelved their product.