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Posted by Ren Bucholz on Tuesday, April 22 @ 13:42:21 EDT
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C|Net reports that Cisco Systems will be building "lawful interception" technology into their routers. Curiously (or not), the company is choosing not to build audit trails into the hardware, a feature that would make it more difficult for law enforcement to overstep the bounds of a surveillance order. In a bit waffling, Cisco's Fred Baker can't seem to settle on who's asking them to do it:
C|Net: Have you had requests for this capability, directly or indirectly, from government agencies?
Baker: Yes and no. We got the request from our customers. The laws relate to the ISPs, which are our customers. Certainly, if we get a request from our customers that we can't support, there are penalties that accrue. [...]
We've had discussions with government agencies, but (they're generally not) asking us to build a product. They do that with ISPs, who then come to us.
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Re: Cisco to Make Router/Stool Pigeon Combo (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 23 @ 09:00:00 EDT | this makes sense, there is very little in the way of actual organization when it comes to a US gov agency. they work more closely with people within their own state to start then on a national scale. |
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