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Quick and Dirty Summary:
The FCC is now forcing internet broadband providers and some voice-over-IP providers to build backdoors into their networks to make it easier for law enforcement to wiretap them. CALEA, a law passed in the early 1990s, mandated that all telephone providers build tappability into their networks, but expressly ruled out information services like broadband. Under the new ruling from the FCC, this tappability now extends to Internet broadband providers as well. At the same time, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking airlines to build similar backdoors into the phone and data networks on airplanes.
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I guess I can understand where they are coming from, but this is seriously concerning. As the article states, these backdoors are not secure. Having yet another way my personal information, privacy, and security can be jeopardized over the internet is not something I want to accept- yet here it is, like a bitch-slap across the face. This ruling "also hobbles technical innovation by forcing companies involved in broadband to redesign their products to meet government requirements," and "risks the functionality of the Internet as a forum for free and open expression." It seems to me like we are giving up a lot of freedom and security for "the greater good" so to speak. If people keep accepting these changes as inevitable facts of life, when will it stop? We are going to end up living George Orwell's 1984 if we keep this shit up.
