US Seeks Access to More Internet Data Without Court Order

[punkle jones]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Jon Cosby <jon at jcosby.com> wrote:

>
> "The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration is seeking to
> make it easier for the FBI to obtain internet records of users without a
> court order. If Congress approves the plan, the FBI would be able to
> secretly issue a National Security Letter to an internet provider and
> obtain who users send email to, the times and dates of e-mails sent and
> received, and possibly a log of every website visited. Kevin Bankston of
> the Electronic Frontier Foundation said, "Our biggest concern is that an
> expanded [National Security Letter] power might be used to obtain Internet
> search queries and Web histories detailing every Web site visited and every
> file downloaded.""
>

It's time, finally, for every website to start supporting SSL.  What reasons
are there not to support it nowadays?


> http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/29/headlines#2
>
> This makes me wonder, what information could an ISP provide about Internet
> activity through Tor? My provider is more trustworthy than most, but this
> would give me cause for concern.
>

Unless there are bad folks out there actively matching entries to exits and
making the info available to your ISP/the guys in suits (there's no reason
to entirely doubt this possibility - why not be paranoid?), there won't be a
whole heck of a lot of info if you're using TOR.  The standard warnings
still apply:  https://www.torproject.org/download.html.en#Warning

This is a very deep topic that IMO goes far beyond simply using TOR and
stopping conspicuous behaviors to stymie tracking.  I'm no expert on
breaking anonymity, so hopefully some of those will chime in.  Kyle
Williams, or coderman maybe?

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