Federal Bureau Of Internet

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37203,00.html

Evidentally, the UnitedStatesOfAmerica FederalBureauOfInvestigation? has plans to route all Internet traffic through its central servers (presumably traveling through US routes). It's not clear from the article if this is actually a routing issue or if it is simply monitoring ISP traffic. Ignoring all the CivilLiberties? issues, I wonder what all the technical wrinkles (aside from the obvious ones such as bandwidth and SinglePointOfFailure) there are in such a scheme.

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Possible issues:

• Getting major ISPs to agree to mirror traffic to the FBI
• Bandwidth
• Encrypted (SecureSocketLayer? / PrettyGoodPrivacy) communications
• How easy is it to set up private routes to bypass known collection points?

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I doubt SinglePointOfFailure is a concern, since they don't need to be the middleman in the traffic, they just need a branch off every path to pass through their collection point. OTOH, bandwidth is a concern.

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I find it hard to believe that anyone could think this is:

• Technically Feasible
• Legal
• Actually Useful

IOW brought to you by the same class of scum that thought invading Iraq would pay for itself. You know: Theft.