Spooks want back door into computer systems

Found on The Inquirer on Sunday, 25 April 2004
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The FBI is leaning on the US government in a bid to force through changes to the net that will allow it to snoop on net traffic more easily.

According to Cnet, the Feds, along with the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration are leaning on the FCC, rather than Congress, to approve the plan without too much attention from the public.

The Feds have used data tapping to collar internet based crime and have the controversial Carnivore system, also called DCS1000 to do the job. Apparently the problem is that Carnivore has a devil of a job sorting out all the data it collects.

The result is that the spooks are looking at other ways of getting the data they want and are going back to their old idea of forcing software designers, ISPs and companies to build spook friendly back doors.

So, if a someone installs a backdoor, he can get busted. If the gov wants a backdoor, it's ok. I hope they can be sued under spyware laws. People will check software and analyze packets. Then those trojaned programs can be avoided.