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LoP Guest Wrote:

Natural gas is a threat to the oil companies. Better nationalize them. For national security.

Didn't think of it that way.Good point.

**freebyrd nli** lop guest User ID: 69169 05-07-2012 12:09 AM

is this affecting the internet as a whole?
because in the last couple of hours my connection has been shit

**byco** lop guest User ID: 55367 05-07-2012 12:23 AM

they should know - they're the ones doing the attacking
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**Kanaima**

Just yesterday the first telegraph was about gas filled balloons injuring scores the second is this

doomed

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 94209 05-07-2012 12:40 AM

co-incidentally just as Homeland finishes here in blighty chuckle

**silversides**

FBI renews push for ready-made Web wiretaps

The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require the firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.

In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators, senior FBI officials argue the dramatic shift in communication from the telephone system to the Internet has made it far more difficult for agents to wiretap Americans suspected of illegal activities, CNET has learned.

The FBI general counsel's office has drafted a proposed law that the bureau claims is the best solution: requiring that social-networking Web sites and providers of VoIP, instant messaging, and Web e-mail alter their code to ensure their products are wiretap-friendly.

"If you create a service, product, or app that allows a user to communicate, you get the privilege of adding that extra coding," a person who has reviewed the FBI's draft legislation told CNET. The requirements apply only if a threshold of a certain number of users is exceeded, according to a second person briefed on it.

The FBI's proposal would amend a 1994 law, called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, that currently applies only to telecommunications providers, not Web companies. The Federal Communications Commission extended CALEA in 2004 to apply to broadband networks.

FBI Director Robert Mueller is not asking companies to support the bureau's CALEA expansion, but instead is "asking what can go in it to minimize impacts," one participant in the discussions says. That included a scheduled trip this month to the West Coast -- which was subsequently postponed -- to meet with Internet companies' CEOs and top lawyers.

A further expansion of CALEA is unlikely to be applauded by tech companies, their customers, or privacy groups. Apple (which distributes iChat and FaceTime) is currently lobbying on the topic, according to disclosure documents filed with Congress two weeks ago. Microsoft (which owns Skype and Hotmail) says its lobbyists are following the topic because it's "an area of ongoing interest to us." Google, Yahoo, and Facebook declined to comment.
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http://www.zdnet.com/news/fbi-renews-pus...ps/6361782

**silversides**

FBI wants access to social networks, E-mail providers

Requesting backdoor access; wants them to be wiretap friendly
http://vator.tv/news/2012-05-05-fbi-want...-providers

**silversides**

Surveillance State democracy

As the FBI seeks full access to all forms of Interent communication, it is not voters who need to be convinced
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/06/surveill...singleton/

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silversides Wrote:

FBI wants access to social networks, E-mail providers

Requesting backdoor access; wants them to be wiretap friendly
http://vator.tv/news/2012-05-05-fbi-want...-providers

Everything the US Government touches turns to crap. Why ca't they see their flaws? S977

**Black H@t** · (This post was last modified: 05-07-2012 01:58 AM by Black H@t.)

Our government already regulates: What we eat, What we learn/read/tested in school, What we hear on the radio, What we watch on the TV, and what we read in the newspaper/magazine media.

The only place that the American government doesn't have its fingers currently in is the Internet. The government is trying very hard to get total control of the Internet; just look how many bills they tried or are trying to get signed to achieve that goal. We have 1) PIPA 2) SOPA 3) CISPA 4) "BackDoor Access" Bill.

That is a total of four bills they tried or are currently trying to get signed by the president so that they can have control over the Internet.

doomed

ObamaCare Bill = Government controlled healthcare

CISPA/PIPA/SOPA/BackDoorInternet Bill= Government Controlled Internet

Our Government just wants its stinking fingers in everyone's life one way or another. Man they are really dieing to get total control over everything in our lives just think about something our government doesn't have its fingers in something one way or another.

Can you really name something that the American government doesn't some how have its fingers in something?

doomed

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 80361 05-07-2012 02:14 AM

Careful now the Taliban might h4X0rz the interwebz and make our nuclear reactors blow! Lmao

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 88524 05-07-2012 02:20 AM

~Humanityneedspeace~ Wrote:

major cyber attack is currently under way aimed squarely at computer networks belonging to US natural gas pipeline companies, according to alerts issued to the industry by the US Department of Homeland Security.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47310697/ns/...e_monitor/

It's a good thing that they're so trustworthy and that they have only our best interests in mind...

Lmao

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 94960 05-07-2012 03:00 AM

Black H@t Wrote:

The only place that the American government doesn't have its fingers currently in is the Internet.

Hello, history-deficiency mind.

the government invented and controlled the entire internet up until 1993.

**vintagevixen**

sixten Wrote:

Why do they hook up vital infrastructure to the internet in the first place.

They don't

so to the best of my knowledge this is BS

vv