Proposal bans data centers/ISPs from allowing non-backdoor encryption?

[imagenesis]

The future is server providers and ISPs banning all non-backdoor encryption and VPNs without a backdoor. They find out you're using Truecrypt or THE non-patched crypto linux libraries they disconnect you and delete your data. ISPs ban all non-compliant encryption

Basically they just proposed to ban all non-backdoor encryption on threat of disconnection from the internet for the offender at this point and probably future criminal violations for circumvention.

Make it a crime with 5-10 years in around 2020 and add the copyright violations part of this and you have yourself some nice criminalized DRM. Nice society

A group of primates came into my house today and told me I cant encrypt things. We came from the jungle. And you primates have no god given control over my encryption

[kurtdriver]

What have you been smoking?

[tobywan]

I don't know what may have been smoked, but when I clicked on the link in my email to read the full post, my antivirus caught a trojan trying to download to my box.

"9/27/2010 5:06:27 PM Denied: HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Script.Generic Google Chrome http://mildpool.ru/Vector_Graphic.js"

I'd advise anyone else reading this to C Y A.

[MASONTX]

Thanks for the warning on the trojan. As to the proposal, some may claim that we can trust the US gov not to abuse this. What occurs to me, is that if this is required of all sites, what is to prevent governments without checks and balances from cracking the back door and spying on their people, or on us? Hackers have already hacked into many bank, credit card, and other sites, seems like they would eventually be able to find the back door and crack it. This proposal scares me.

[Mudgen]

What have you been smoking?

More to the point, what have you been downloading? And what kind of primate is banging on your door and telling you that you can't encrypt? A probation officer?

[kurtdriver]

And what kind of primate is banging on your door and telling you that you can't encrypt? A probation officer?

No, worse yet, it was Piltdown Man, hairy, naked and kind of ugly. I put some clothes on him, taught him a couple of words, and now he's got a hip hop record in the top ten.
I didn't and still don't understand the original post, maybe I should've smoked something, but it refers to something in particular? Who are "they"?

[MikeTbob]

This thread has run it's course and I see no value in continuing this thread. *locking*