Lawful monitoring of Internet interception system in India

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

17 points·tuhin··7 comments

No need to worry. This project will be contracted to some politicians relative, and they'll come up with some bullshit. Our Data will be safe.

Something doesn't seem right there. Firstly, FB and twitter are off bounds because of US regulations but Gmail isn't?

And "The new interception system would be instant because we would have the email IDs and passwords of suspects and we can track their conversations 24X7,"? WTF does that even mean? How do they plan on getting the passwords?

Indiatimes is not the best news source we have here in India, to put it lightly. I suggest we ignore this till somebody more credible reports.

> And "The new interception system would be instant because we would have the email IDs and passwords of suspects and we can track their conversations 24X7,"? WTF does that even mean? How do they plan on getting the passwords?

It means the Delhi Police cyber-crime branch is manned by clueless morons who probably have never heard terms like SSL, TLS....

Your data is indeed safe.

Here's some more info on global tender floated by Delhi Police: http://www.medianama.com/2011/11/223-delhi-police-floats-int...

Looks like this is similar to USA's CALEA.

Exactly, all India really needed was an implementation of the "Mediation Device" according to their needs, which in turn hooks into all the various proprietary lawful intercept interfaces that just about all networking gear already provides.

Unacceptable... system..... it'll be a step back to free speech in indian democracy the day this tool goes live..

how is this possible? i won't give my pass to them so how can they see anything that goes via secure connection?

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