Going Dark?
Addendum: Going Dark
FBI Going Dark: Law Enforcement Problems in Lawful Surveillance
FBI Going Dark: Lawful Electronic Surveillance in the Face of New Technologies
U.S. Weighs Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws
"Albert Gidari Jr., who represents technology companies on law enforcement matters, criticized that proposed procedure. He argued that if the United States started imposing fines on foreign Internet firms, it would encourage other countries, some of which may be looking for political dissidents, to penalize American companies if they refused to turn over users’ information..."
“We’ll look a lot more like China than America after this,” Mr. Gidari said.
"The expanded fines would also apply to phone and network carriers, like Verizon and AT&T, which are separately subject to the 1994 wiretapping capacity law. The FBI has argued that such companies sometimes roll out system upgrades without making sure that their wiretap capabilities will keep working..."
"The 1994 law would be expanded to cover peer-to-peer voice-over-Internet protocol, or VoIP — calls between computers that do not connect to the regular phone network. Such services typically do not route data packets through any central hub, making them difficult to intercept..."
NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies' Servers, Including Google and Facebook
"The companies whose servers are being mined are reportedly Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. The classified program, dubbed PRISM, has been in operation since 2007 and has been a leading source of intelligence fed to the president in his daily intelligence briefings, according to the
Washington Post, which broke the story at the same time as the
Guardian today..."
"The program is a cousin to another bulk-collection program code-named BLARNEY, which collects internet “metadata” — address packets, device signatures and other information — that roars along the internet’s backbone..."
Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities Related to Internet Cafe
http://info.publicintelligence.net/FBI-SuspiciousActivity/Internet_Cafe.pdf