U.S. want to forse developers to insert a ready made back door in their software.

U.S. authorities are formulating new ways to wiretap criminal suspects. already the U.S. goverment requires internet and phone networks to allow them to easedrop on us, but now officals at the white house, the justise department, the FBI, and NSA want to extent that communication providers.That means the government could get a court order forcing blackberry and facebook to it wire tap your hand held device or easedrop on your webpage. Blackberry and facebook incript their data between their users and in the case of blackberry it routs information outside of the reach of U.S. law. These proposals would forse both of them to unscamble and intersept information for the U.S. Thus a ready made back door in thier software that can be readly exploted by hackers.

First reported by the Washington Post.

The back door to software is how security holding websites get their patrons compromised.
If problems arise perhaps its best to reset.
I think most communication is at least being recorded for future evaluation.
I would think certain key words spoken or typed looked at immediately and might
cause an unsuspected drop in service so you have to retype or tell the communiation
over again.

I just found a much better thread titeld: U.S. wants to make it easier to wiretap the internet.

If this actually became a law in the US, I wonder about a couple of things.

Would this not also make it easier for foreign countries to acces US systems?
Example: Blackberry sends info to Canada, if the developers use similar backdoors, wouldn't this make it very easy for the Canadian government to access the same information that the US is accessing?

Would this cause a rift in developers, some choosing to develop outside US software, and some developing US compliant software?

Would this not open the US to easier virus attacks, by hiding them in the backdoor programs? I am assuming the US government would assume these backdoor areas as secure.

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Global Governance answers your question.

There can only be one.

this is just another of many to come pushes for government dominance over its people and its businesses...it's absolutely ridiculous if you ask me and shouldn't be allowed to pass...these type of back doors are probably a security risk as well and should not be allowed

The Government has been in bed with telecommunications since the 40's. Why would you even consider that the NSA is not already practicing eves-dropping already.

Why do you think that Microsoft anti-trust case was dropped. Mircosoft changed nothing about its business model, just opened the back door for the NSA.

Get real, everything you say, everything you do is monitored.

Heck Facebook was founded using NSA & CIA funds.

I had to star and flag this post, I really hope people here on ATS are paying attention to whats going on......

This is the SAME government that wants to pass Net Neutrality and is touting it as a service to the freedom of the internet!

GIve me a break, you people actually believe that while they are pulling fast ones like this with the backdoor program, that Net Neutrality is going to be some benign gov regulation?

Wake up America before the US becomes the same as China in their internet freedom.

Why arent the liberals and democrats screaming about this? They screamed about the patriot act, yet this sort of thing is going on and people arent saying a word? How about how they can track where you are in the world without a warrant?

DO NOT trust the government to do ANY of this stuff for youre greater good.........I dont need someone to monitor my activity, I dont need to be watched all the time, and I dont need them to watch other people for me.

Ill take my chances WITH my freedoms , instead of the government trying to strip them away.......

For all of you who think that the Constitution is just an out dated piece of paper, It was designed to PROTECT us from these sorts of things........

Start getting familiar with it..........