NSA “Yelled” at France Over “Three-Strikes” Legislation

Hopefully this doesn't get turned around and next time there is a security breach, the CIA points their finger at file sharing encryption as the reason they can no longer detect these types of situations (they're certainly going to mention it if that's the problem). What a crazy world we live in where downloading music on freenet means you are helping terrorists. Can someone explain to me how encryption stops the RIAA from getting your IP address when they download a Lady Gaga song from you?

I trust the NSA about as much as I trust a Catholic priest offering young boys sanctuary. But I'll take any help I can get to fight this attack on world freedom of thought and communication.

Agreed. A three strikes law is a threat, not just to national security in those countries, but a threat to global security as well. Bottom line, such laws make the world unsafe. The harder such laws are pushed, the more we learn how bad and flawed the laws really are. When I covered HADOPI in detail, I learned that it would cost tens of millions of euros, it doesn't cover all forms of communication, e-mail scammers took full advantage of the laws to scare users out of their money, it failed to address file-sharing, and those who are willing to use encryption go completely undetected. So, in short, it's a burden to society, it doesn't live up to its promises and is a waste of time and resources for everyone. Now we know that such laws also destabilizes security of various nations and torpedo's law officials ability to do their jobs in protecting people's lives. After all of that, what good does this law do? Nothing. The only people who are pushing for these laws are the entertainment industry. It's a new low knowing now that the entertainment industry is willing to put people's lives in danger to protect their outdated business models. When will the insanity end?

I have to wonder too if I was forced to go through the work of encrypting my files if I'd feel any obligation to keep buying the stuff I like. As it is now, I buy plenty of awesome things, but if legislation was passed, the work involved in getting something as a free trial might fulfill my obligation to my guilt of getting something for free.

@ RIAA, MPAA, IFPI, BSA, etc. NSA has just called 3-strikes legislation a danger to National Security. Your move.

Encryption and encrypted P2P are already widespread. HADOPI doesn't change anything. Tor/Freenet/PGP/etc. have been growing steadily just fine for the past decade without any serious anti-piracy laws to push them. These tools are becoming easier and easier to use. Sticking your head in the sand on anti-piracy won't make them go away. We're going to need new laws and regulations to deal with them regardless.

So the press release goes..... however, the agency was heavily involved in ACTA negotiations and pushed for mandatory profiling of user accounts. Your political leanings, (like it mattered) the pages you have viewed, criminal history of the account holder, and family holdings, (properties, bonds and shares). Logarithms developed for 'friend of a friend' profiling, similar to facebooks systems. Geo tagging and access to EU social service numbers really helps. Oh and forcing data retention upon EU member states long past agreed dates and outside the scope of communications protocols.