FC: Weekly column: Cisco's wiretapping plans, int'v with Fred Baker

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://news.com.com/2010-1071-997528.html

   Inside Cisco's eavesdropping apparatus
   By Declan McCullagh
   April 21, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

   Cisco Systems has created a more efficient and targeted way for police
   and intelligence agencies to eavesdrop on people whose Internet
   service provider uses their company's routers.

   The company recently published a proposal that describes how it plans
   to embed "lawful interception" capability into its products. Among the
   highlights: Eavesdropping "must be undetectable," and multiple police
   agencies conducting simultaneous wiretaps must not learn of one
   another. If an Internet provider uses encryption to preserve its
   customers' privacy and has access to the encryption keys, it must turn
   over the intercepted communications to police in a descrambled form.

   Cisco's decision to begin offering "lawful interception" capability as
   an option to its customers could turn out to be either good or bad
   news for privacy.

   [...]




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