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Date: 2000-07-27
UK: RIP Abhoergesetze & technische Kritik
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Leicht zu umgehen, technisch uneffizient gegen Kriminelle
und nur dazu geeignet, die Privatsphäre honoriger Bürger
aufzuheben - dieses Urteil von Ian Brown & Brian Gladman
teilt auch der Autor des New Scientist Artikels.
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Diese wie auch sehr viele andere gute Infos der letzten Zeit
wurden von Goetz Ohnesorge für die q/depesche just in time
aus dem Netz gefischt. Es ist zwischendurch mal an der
Zeit, Goetz & mehreren anderen Regulars dafür 1000Dank zu
sagen.
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Britain is about to waste millions of pounds on an obsolete
Internet snooping system
INTERNET users can avoid having their e-mails intercepted
by the British government if they follow some simple advice
published this week by two leading Internet security experts.
The advice is designed to highlight failings in the
government's multimillion-pound plan to install "black box" e-
mail recorders on the premises of Internet service providers
(ISPs).
Distributed to MPs earlier this week, the paper is a last-ditch
attempt to explain why the Regulation of Investigatory
Powers (RIP) Bill is unworkable. If passed by Parliament this
week, RIP will give security forces unprecedented powers to
snoop on Internet users and demand encryption keys.
But Ian Brown, an Internet security expert at University
College London, and Brian Gladman, a former Ministry of
Defence information security expert, state in their briefing
paper that the interception technology that the Bill requires is
already obsolete. Rather than helping catch criminals, they
say these recorders would be easy for criminals to evade.
They describe the powers in the Bill as "technically inept",
and list a number of ways in which someone with no
technical know-how could circumvent black boxes installed
at ISPs.
They say the introduction of affordable "always-on" ultrafast
connections, such as ADSL, will change the way people
access the Internet, with more and more setting up their own
mail servers. When this happens, says Brown, there is no
reason why people shouldn't bypass ISPs and the
government's snooping boxes installed there (click on
thumbnail for diagram). This can't be done with dial-up
connections because mail servers need to listen out
constantly for new mail.
Viel mehr davon
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224964
Das FIPR Papier
http://www.fipr.org/rip/RIPcountermeasures.htm
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