FCC To Rescind Ruling That Said ISPs Are Required To Secure Their Networks (arstechnica.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/31/237241/fcc-to-rescind-ruling-that-said-isps-are-required-to-secure-their-networks
- Source link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/fcc-dumps-plan-for-telecom-security-rules-that-internet-providers-dont-like/
> The FCC's January 2025 declaratory ruling came in response to attacks by China, including the Salt Typhoon infiltration of major telecom providers such as Verizon and AT&T. The Biden-era FCC found that the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), a 1994 law, "affirmatively requires telecommunications carriers to secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications."
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> "The Commission has previously found that section 105 of CALEA creates an affirmative obligation for a telecommunications carrier to avoid the risk that suppliers of untrusted equipment will "illegally activate interceptions or other forms of surveillance within the carrier's switching premises without its knowledge,'" the January order said. "With this Declaratory Ruling, we clarify that telecommunications carriers' duties under section 105 of CALEA extend not only to the equipment they choose to use in their networks, but also to how they manage their networks."
A draft of the order that will be voted on in November can be found [3]here (PDF).
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/fcc-dumps-plan-for-telecom-security-rules-that-internet-providers-dont-like/
[2] https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2025/10/29/halloween-treats
[3] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-415190A1.pdf
One more rule (Score:2)
Another rule: ISPs are required to send internal network diagrams, passwords, keys and certificates to Vladimir Putin.
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You know I wonder if we get the Epstein files if Trump will finally stop fucking Putin's dick.
It's pretty obvious Putin has the Epstein files and the implicate trump. If it's all out in the open then the compromat is no longer valuable.
I mean it's not as if the public is going to turn on Trump completely. They grumble a little when the economy goes to shit because Trump can't run a country or anything else for that matter. But they love him so much on a deep personal level, the same level a woman wi
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Makes you wonder what other kompromat there is on all the world's "leaders" given that the paedo-aspect is already out. I guess it's way worse than genocide.
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People can cheerfully look the other way at genocide as long as it's not being done on people that look like them.
Even then they can look the other way if they're not doing so hot economically.
I just came across the old Eddie izzard joke about how Hitler got in trouble because he killed other country's people but Pol pot got to die peacefully because he killed his own people. That's not far off.
But a good old-fashioned sex scandal yeah that'll be a problem for world leaders.
This is insane! (Score:2)
Quite plainly, this is a national security issue. It's not a far-fetched hypothetical to see networks infiltrated to compromise security in order to steal sensitive information about people, businesses, etc. Yes, "national security" is the common claim of the oppressor but that doesn't mean it's always illegitimate.
WHO THE FUCK WOULD BE AGAINST ACTUAL NATIONAL SECURITY?!
Re:This is insane! (Score:4, Insightful)
> Quite plainly, this is a national security issue. It's not a far-fetched hypothetical to see networks infiltrated to compromise security in order to steal sensitive information about people, businesses, etc. Yes, "national security" is the common claim of the oppressor but that doesn't mean it's always illegitimate.
> WHO THE FUCK WOULD BE AGAINST ACTUAL NATIONAL SECURITY?!
Our government is generally rules based. That is a specific system of laws vs of people or of "reasonable behavior".
The specific question is whether the regulation was allowed under the specific law that they used.
As TFA points out the argument is that the rule the FCC made was beyond what the law they quoted allowed. I'm so so on whether it is or not, but that's the point in question, NOT whether someone hates national security.
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That's the argument, yes. But it isn't [1]all [cybersecuritydive.com] [2]that [eff.org] [3]crazy [washingtonpost.com] to [4]notice [observer.com] a [5]pattern [reuters.com].
[1] https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-layoffs-reassignments-dhs-white-house-government-shutdown/802723/
[2] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-leads-prominent-security-experts-urging-trump-administration-leave-chris-krebs
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
[4] https://observer.com/2025/04/trump-cybersecurity-firings-cisa-nsa-china-threats/
[5] https://www.reuters.com/world/us-suspends-some-efforts-counter-russian-sabotage-trump-moves-closer-putin-2025-03-19/
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> Our government is generally rules based.
In 2025, that statement is 100% false.
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The symbolism that MAGAs have is that Trump is tearing down the White House East Wing, the House of the People, and building a Ball Room. All while 40 million Americans are denied food.
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I want the MAGAs to come back into the fold of decent people. They went astray awhile. Worshiping Oligarchs in middle class America does not seem like a "winning" idea.
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If Obama bulldozed a wing of the whitehouse the republicans would still be recovering from the massive collective stroke they suffered.
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I am old enough to equate Republicans with George Will, MAGAs are not republicans. MAGAs do not have any principles. MAGAs are not conservatives. MAGAs are Oligarch Worshipers.
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> If Obama bulldozed a wing of the White House the republicans would still be recovering from the massive collective stroke they suffered.
Or bombed Venezuelan boats w/o Congressional approval and oversight.
Or imposed these tariffs (taxes) instead of through Congress -- paid by U.S. consumers, btw.
Or did anything ICE, the National Guard and military is currently doing in U.S. cities.
Or strong-armed universities, law firms, into paying $$$.
Or had, much less televised, brown-nosing, dictator-styled Cabinet meetings.
Or profited and self-dealed like Trump is doing.
Or ...
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I think that Trump is a fucked up, mixed up Oligarch, but I think that America should bomb Venezuela for other reasons. This seems to be a case where a clock is right twice a day.
Story checks out. (Score:2)
It may be pathetic; but the 'make america great again unless it sounds like actual work might be involved' attitude is, at least, consistent.
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Dig deep into it, and translation of "Make America Great Again" equates into young white men raping women with no repercussions. Secondary to White Men's animal beliefs is to just to have all the Wealth in the World.
"extensive FCC engagement with carriers" (Score:2)
"After extensive discussions with the wolves, they were allowed to eat the sheep."
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Unfettered Capitalism at its worst.