"U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet"

[hummingwolf]

Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications - including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype - to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order. The mandate would

Comments

[aekiy]

Apart from the general stupidity of the concept, particularly with regards to decryption, isn't this in conflict with the current labeling of the Internet as an information service rather than a telecommunications service?

[hummingwolf]

I'm not sure law enforcement cares how the Internet is labeled--they just want to figure out how to tap somebody's phone line when they don't have a phone line.