And Now.... Data Retention. Enjoy!
Just a heads-up. CALEA compliance ain't your only concern anymore. [snip] U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged telecommunications officials to record their customers' Internet activities, CNET News.com has learned. In a private meeting with industry representatives, Gonzales, Mueller and other senior members of the Justice Department said Internet service providers should retain subscriber information and network data for two years, according to two sources familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity. [snip] More here: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6077654.html Cheers, - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
Duh, Those crazy americans... ----- (on the premise of: "network data for two years") Some republicans have stocks in SAN/NAS/DVD/Hard Drive/etc markets and need a boost? Around here we're talking about only 70,000 DVD. I see a way to mirror each pipe into a device capable of compressing it real time to disks and then spew DVD... But I fail to grasp the scope of the challenge that could be for the big players out there. It would be fun to see some numbers. ----- Subcriber infos is no big deals, we kept records from day 0. (13 years+) Thanks Fergie for the entertainment. Fergie wrote:
Just a heads-up.
CALEA compliance ain't your only concern anymore.
[snip]
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged telecommunications officials to record their customers' Internet activities, CNET News.com has learned.
In a private meeting with industry representatives, Gonzales, Mueller and other senior members of the Justice Department said Internet service providers should retain subscriber information and network data for two years, according to two sources familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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More here: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6077654.html
Cheers,
- ferg
-- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
-- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net fax 514-990-9443
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Alain Hebert wrote:
Around here we're talking about only 70,000 DVD. I see a way to mirror each pipe into a device capable of compressing it real time to disks and then spew DVD...
Here in europe officials deny that their intention ever was to have telcos actually record calls and/or internet traffic and save it for 2 years. They want to have metadata such as radius login logs, dhcp logs, MTA logs, web server logs etc saved for 2 years, not the actual contents of email, web traffic etc. They would of course love to have netflow/sflow logs but that's going to be a hard sell since a lot of equipment out there do not support it. Some politicians have made statements that might be interpreted that they want actual content saved, but when asked I have usually ended upp with that it's only metadata that needs to be saved. This is often done 6 months anyway, so I don't see it as a major hassle to save it 24 months instead. The interesting part is the "collission" with the Electronic Commerce law in EU that states that data for privacy reasons should never be saved longer than absolutely neccessary for billing. The EU data retention directive is in the implementation phase so we still do not know the actual implemented law yet (at least not here in Sweden). -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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