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borosen

article wrote:

A bill introduced to the US House of Representatives would require ISPs to record all users' surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely.

Link

Is this for real?

Maybe time to get some Hitachi shares.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Wow. That's impossible to do... Would lead into an enourmous amount of trash Big Smile

BryanF

Yet another reason to be a fan of peer-to-peer + encryption. I think child pornographers are the scum of the earth, but this is an opportunistic play on congress's part... not that I expect any better these days. Sad

Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker

It wont pass. This government cant be that dense...

I also work at an ISP, not one of the big ones, and I can tell you that if that did pass alot of companies would start going under because they cant afford to store that much data, let alone the costs to modify the entire network infastructure to be able to do that and the security and privacy issues of corporations having that much data.

If it does pass, I may just have to buy some dark fiber...

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

foxbar wrote:
When you send any email out, it's going out in plain text more often than not. Same with anything you visit on the web. Use vpn's, use jabber/google secure instead of MSN.

If the US government wants to read my emails about what pub to go to tonight, or my MSN histories in which I discuss who is the best mustachioed movie villain, they're welcome to.

borosen

Anyone interested in watching what I am doing on the net, has a really dull life. I pity them. So that is not really my problem here.

Can it actually be done? Physically.
Are there enough raw material to create magnetic disks, tape, dvd or whatever.

Note, IIUC, it is not to archive what is available on the net, but what is actually sent over the net, indefinitely, until the sun burns the earth ...

Xaero_Vincent
Sexy me

My take:

Not only is it extremely wasteful to backup petabytes worth of internet traffic, there is real reason to believe that invasion of privacy is both unconstitutional and in violation of the fourth amendment.

Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?

There's been talk about stuff like this in denmark before, in order to stop terror.

Never happend. And it wont, i believe.

You will need some REAL FAST harddrives, in order to keep up with all the data sent all the time!! Perplexed