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Homeland Security wants master key for the Internet

Will be able to snoop on everyone

By Nick Farrell: Monday 02 April 2007, 06:55
THE US Department of Homeland Security is insisting that Verisign hand over
the master keys of the Internet.

If it succeeds, the US will be able to track DNS Security Extensions
(DNSSec) all the way back to the servers that represent the name system's
root zone on the Internet.

Effectively it would mean that US spooks could snoop on anyone in the
Worldwide wibble and place control of the Interweb tubes firmly in the paws
of the US government.

The information that Homeland security is after the "key-signing
key", currently held by Verisign, was revealed to the the meeting of
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Lisbon.

Not surprisingly other countries in the world are a little concerned about
this. According to the German magazine Heise Online, a representative of
the EU Commission said that the matter is being discussed with EU member
states.

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which handles route
management within the ICANN, could be entrusted with the task of keeping
the keys. But the US authorities claims the right to oversee ICANN/IANA.

English version of the story here.
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Joe

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