Wiretapping, the “Anonymous” hacking collective, Wikileaks — once again, web security is at the forefront, worrying proponents of privacy. Yesterday, the FBI’s general counsel, Valerie Caproni, addressed the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary in a session entitled, “Going Dark: Lawful Electronic Surveillance in the Face of New Technologies,” about the agency’s moves to deal with the so-called going dark problem. That is, when the “police can be thwarted when conducting court-authorized eavesdropping because Internet companies aren’t required to build in backdoors in advance, or because technology doesn’t permit it” as Declan McCullagh notes on CNET News‘ Privacy Inc. column.
The “backdoor” referenced is, of course, a method of bypassing typical authentication to gain access to a system. The FBI’s goal is to update how police with wiretap orders can surveil web-based e-mail, social networking sites, and peer-to-peer communications technology.
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