Hacking Corner

Rick Falkvinge and Peter Sunde (brokep of the TPB fame) have both blogged about the FRA deal:

• Rick Falkvinge: After wiretapping, a national DNA register
• http://blog.brokep.com/2008/06/22/fra/

Falkvinge has older, rather lengthy, posts about the whole deal here:

• 2008-05-25 Swedish NSA to wiretap all phones, internet
• 2008-06-04 More on the Ubiquitous Wiretapping Bill

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Swedish lawmakers voted late on Wednesday in favour of a controversial bill allowing all emails and phone calls to be monitored in the name of national security.

thelocal.se

Why is this interesting for someone living in Finland? Most of Finland’s outbound traffic (and even some internal) passes through Sweden [1, 2], which means it will be inspected and logged by FRA.

Links:

• Slashdot: Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138
• Slashdot: Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan
• Wikipedia: Swedish_National_Defence_Radio_Establishment
• http://rickfalkvinge.se/ (in swedish)
• http://www.stoppafralagen.nu/ (in swedish)

More articles can be found from Google news and blogsearch.

Update 2008-06-20: The law will take effect on 2009-01-01, but I vaguely remember reading somewhere that FRA has already admitted that they have been (unlawfully) monitoring the traffic, saying that there’s no problem as it will be discarded after 1.5 years (the Wikipedia article has swedish sources).

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