After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi

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grandpaflo

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After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi

"After the recent Paris terror attacks, the French government is proposing to forbid and block the use of the Tor anonymity network, according to an internal document from the Ministry of Interior seen by French newspaper Le Monde.

That document lays out two proposed pieces of legislation, one around the state of emergency, and the other concerning counter-terrorism.

In the former, the French government is considering to "Forbid free and shared wi-fi connections" during a state of emergency. This comes from a police opinion included in the document: the reason being that it is apparently difficult to track individuals who use public wi-fi networks.

The latter piece of legislation, meanwhile, says the government is considering "to block or forbid communications of the Tor network." The legislation, according to Le Monde, could be presented as early as January 2016."

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- http://motherboard.vice.com/read/af...nch-law-would-block-tor-and-forbid-free-wi-fi
 

master_shake_

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_terrorist.html

oh stupid authorities.

they were using plain text messages you morons.

Paris Terrorists Used Double ROT-13 Encryption

That is, no encryption at all. The Intercept has the story:
Yet news emerging from Paris -- as well as evidence from a Belgian ISIS raid in January -- suggests that the ISIS terror networks involved were communicating in the clear, and that the data on their smartphones was not encrypted.
European media outlets are reporting that the location of a raid conducted on a suspected safe house Wednesday morning was extracted from a cellphone, apparently belonging to one of the attackers, found in the trash outside the Bataclan concert hall massacre. Le Monde reported that investigators were able to access the data on the phone, including a detailed map of the concert hall and an SMS messaging saying "we're off; we're starting." Police were also able to trace the phone's movements.

RIP privacy
 

madoka

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Benjamin Franklin said:
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Of course we have been giving away our freedoms in this country as well.
 

1prophet

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So after they are done with banning guns they go after something else, who would have thought.:whiste:
 

Genx87

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True, except in this country we give our privacy and not our guns.

They are working on it. The president is doubling down on stupid by advocating citizens have their 2nd amendment rights denied based on a govt list.
 

SP33Demon

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Maybe they should just ban the root cause of it - the Koran and its definition of jihad. Simply take out the violent pieces out of the Koran and get muslim leaders of the community to agree to it, while including global muslim of other countries to agree to it. Only then will I really believe that muslims truly want peace.
 
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