latez
join:2002-01-07
Brooklyn, NY
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| DOJ Bullying?
Well atleast the ISP's didnt shove their tale between their legs and submit once again. Perhaps the thought of AG Gonzales shoving it to them without the lube in the future frightened them off.
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Annoyedathis
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| This is annoying....
I hate to bring reality to the table, but here it is... using child porn as a big reason to track everyone's activities online is just plain BS. How many people out there in the world actually LOOK for this crap? I think the media is overhyping it.
And exactly how is tracking it going to stop the activity. So... you find out that someone has looked at child porn almost 2 years ago. OK... now what? Did that person move in that time frame? Was it the person on the internet account, or someone else in their house? Can you prove that? Is the person using a wireless router like most people do? If so, and they are using no security at all, or WEP, can you be absolutely sure that their router wasn't compromised? True, the internet account holder is responsible for what happens over their account, but... if this pathetic attempt at big brother is serious about actually STOPPING child porn, since it's such a big part of our new world society, tell me how this can PREVENT the action on the part of the person doing it?
Obviously making examples in the media of these disgusting sickos isn't having any effect. Apparently child porn is just going rampant!
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GhostDoggy
join:2005-05-11
Duluth, GA
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Re: DOJ Bullying?
Using child pornography as the excuse for attempting to mandate this kind of requirement is pure BS. They have alterior motives, but no one seems brave enough to confront them on it publicly.
Besides, trying to store millions of subscribers data for a year, let alone two, would be astronomical in costs. Heck, most can't support a robust NNTP server let alone capture and retain for periods of 6-8 times longer than the most premiere new service already afoot.
I think the DOJ needs to take a basic computing class, because they obviously are asking ISPs to turn straw into gold. |
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Tomek
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join:2002-01-30
Brooklyn, NY
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| Easy Solution
That kind of thinking will cause lots of problems in future.
Maybe cars manufacturers should install black boxes in cars to monitor their driving and sent that info to PD so they print you tickets for all little violations.
People should have implanted RFID so we can tell where everybody was a time, would help solve murder cases.
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N3OGH
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Philly burbs
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| said by Tomek  :That kind of thinking will cause lots of problems in future. Maybe cars manufacturers should install black boxes in cars to monitor their driving and sent that info to PD so they print you tickets for all little violations. People should have implanted RFID so we can tell where everybody was a time, would help solve murder cases. Most GM cars manufactured in the past 7 years have a "black box" on them. It records such things as braking action, speed at time of impact, throttle position, engine speed, and air bag deployment. The box is activated by an accelerometer. In the event of a serious crash, the police can download the information and use it in the investigation.
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
| IP Logs should be saved.
It's stupid if some law enforcement officer tracks down the IP address of a criminal and gets a warrant for identifying information and then upon contacting the ISP being told that the logs are lost every month so there is no way to identify the criminal. These logs should be retained for a couple of years for investigation purposes.
Now tracking the sites people visit and handing that data over to the government is unacceptable. That's just as bad as the phone spying. The government should not know what everyone does all day on the internet and they shouldn't know who we call and our exact gps coordinates either. |
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AB
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join:2006-04-04
Leesburg, VA
| reply to GhostDoggy
Re: DOJ Bullying?
said by GhostDoggy :Using child pornography as the excuse for attempting to mandate this kind of requirement is pure BS. They have alterior motives, but no one seems brave enough to confront them on it publicly. You got that right! Show 'em kiddie porn pictures to get the law passed, then those investigations go out the window because they're too busy snooping into the business of ordinary people. This is what is commonly referred to as a "dog & pony show". Why? Because 100-150 years ago, at the carnival, pickpockets would circulate through the crowds while people's attention was diverted watching that cute doggie riding the pony. The ONLY purpose of the show was to facilitate the crime!
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Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA
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The only reason for bringing child pornography into the mix is to give an attack point if someone opposes this. If someone says no then they will be painted as "pro-child pornography." (Alternatively, someone might say yes just to keep from being seen as "pro-child pornography.")
In reality, this is probably like the NSA phone records scandal. An effort to create a huge repository of information to help catch "bad guys" which will just generate a lot of false leads, invade privacy even more, and wind up being abused and/or expanded in scope to catch other "bad guys" in an effort to prove that the program was a success.
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Necronomikro
join:2005-09-01
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Re: IP Logs should be saved.
said by insomniac84 :It's stupid if some law enforcement officer tracks down the IP address of a criminal and gets a warrant for identifying information and then upon contacting the ISP being told that the logs are lost every month so there is no way to identify the criminal. These logs should be retained for a couple of years for investigation purposes. How about, oh, I don't know, actually doing investigations in a reasonable amount of time and, I don't know, actually letting someone go due to lack of evidence? A few months is fine, considering the exhorbitant amount of info there. A million customers, a new ip per connection, logging for a month alone is probably several gigs worth of logs. Now, imagine if they had to do it for 2 years? 24xseveral gigs = a HUGE AMOUNT OF DATA THAT WILL ONLY GET LARGER. It's unreasonable to ask them to log that kind of data, and also very expensive to them. |
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JSRoman
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join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL
| Cost was a big issue.
My understanding of this was that companies had a big problem with this due to cost. They wanted to know who was going to pay for all this retention of records. DOJ pretty much passed it on as a cost of doing business, kind of the good of society thing. All I know if major ISPs agree to do this then my usggestion is to buy stocks of network storage companies that might get a piece of the storgae pie.
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Tomek
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join:2002-01-30
Brooklyn, NY | reply to N3OGH
Re: Easy Solution
Now imagine having a small printer in your car. Everytime you go above 65mph it prints you a out a nice ticket.
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Obliteration
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join:2005-09-18
Somewhere
| reply to GhostDoggy
Re: DOJ Bullying?
said by GhostDoggy :Using child pornography as the excuse for attempting to mandate this kind of requirement is pure BS. They have alterior motives, but no one seems brave enough to confront them on it publicly. Besides, trying to store millions of subscribers data for a year, let alone two, would be astronomical in costs. Heck, most can't support a robust NNTP server let alone capture and retain for periods of 6-8 times longer than the most premiere new service already afoot. I think the DOJ needs to take a basic computing class, because they obviously are asking ISPs to turn straw into gold. Agreed. Child sex offenders have existed many centuries ago to barely decide that the Internet will be a tremendous tool for helping them solve the cases a lot faster is BS when in reality it seems all they want to do is spy on people and invade their privacy. |
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Shamayim
I already have a Messiah.
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join:2002-09-23
| Your Right to Privacy
Where is it written? »netsecurity.about.com/od/newsand···ghts.htm
Draw your own conclusions.
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TScheisskopf
World News Trust
join:2005-02-13
Belvidere, NJ
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| reply to insomniac84
Re: IP Logs should be saved.
said by insomniac84 :It's stupid if some law enforcement officer tracks down the IP address of a criminal and gets a warrant for identifying information and then upon contacting the ISP being told that the logs are lost every month so there is no way to identify the criminal. These logs should be retained for a couple of years for investigation purposes. Now tracking the sites people visit and handing that data over to the government is unacceptable. That's just as bad as the phone spying. The government should not know what everyone does all day on the internet and they shouldn't know who we call and our exact gps coordinates either. Ballocks. If there is one constant in this life, it is the fact that something like this will be abused. Not might, WILL. Some bright young political appointee or some not so bright DoJ lawyer, LEO or someone with an axe to grind will use this information in ways and manners unintended and dishonest and guarenteed to erode and abrogate already shopworn constitutional rights.
It has always been thus and it ain't about to change.
At the end of the day, it all boils down to the fact that when it comes to the finer points of The Constitution, Alberto Gonzalez is a very good real estate lawyer.
One more thing: All this government data that is going lost, stolen, missing and whatever. You know, sensative personal data of veterans and whatnot? Do you really think this is a coincidence?
As if. It's bidness, most foul. You don't think that this data would end up being trafficked in the same way?
Another hearty "as if". |
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N3OGH
Bear patrol must be working like a charm
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs | reply to Tomek
Re: Easy Solution
I'd be broke  |
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JJV
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join:2001-04-25
Seattle, WA
clubs: | Same as wiretaping
This is the same as bugging our phones.
We shouldn't be logged or recorded. |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
| reply to TScheisskopf
Re: IP Logs should be saved.
Well then maybe not keep it for a few years, but a set time frame needs to be standardized. Even if that time frame is a month. Police will need to know how long they have to get the information they seek. Of course all of this is pointless if the government just tells ISPs that they have to assign people a static ip address.
And sure they aren't currently giving the government everyone's browsing habits, but they are selling that information to marketers and anyone else willing to pay for it. |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
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join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
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| reply to Tomek
Re: Easy Solution
said by Tomek :That kind of thinking will cause lots of problems in future. Maybe cars manufacturers should install black boxes in cars to monitor their driving and sent that info to PD so they print you tickets for all little violations. Pretty much all new cars shipped in the use for the last 7 years have a telemetry box in them. They are continuously recording information to a memory ring that holds about 5-10 seconds worth of data (enough to help in accident investigations).
said by Tomek :People should have implanted RFID so we can tell where everybody was a time, would help solve murder cases. They already have implantable chips. They already use non-implanted chips for similar purposes.
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Kilroy
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join:2002-11-21
Ann Arbor, MI
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| reply to JJV
Re: Same as wiretaping
said by JJV :This is the same as bugging our phones. We shouldn't be logged or recorded. I agree and the next time you have the opportunity to vote get rid of these fools who use the U.S. Constitution as toilet paper. I know I will.
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biopaul
join:2001-03-01
Bryn Mawr, PA
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| I can just imagine ....
And what if a child porno site is hosted on a URL with a dynamic IP, say for a month, thereafter the same IP is allocated to someone hosting, say, "The Life and Times of Mary Poppins".
How is this going to logged?
I can just imagine law inforcement will go after everyone that browsed to the IP, irrespective what was actually the host site. |
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