The Pirate Bay to Add SSL Encryption Starting this Week
Date : 2008 06 22 Category : Web News
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Comes in response to recent passage of a law allowing all e-mails and phone calls to be monitored in the name of national security.
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest BitTorrent tracker sites, is once again at the forefront of privacy rights in Sweden with news that it plans to add SSL encryption to the site in response to recent legislation allowing the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) to begin monitoring all outgoing and incoming communications that cross Sweden's borders.
Now the new spying powers won't mean that much for people outside Sweden because The Pirate Bay's servers have long been scattered throughout the world to prevent another shutdown of the site by Swedish authorities.
But, many are rightly upset over the enhanced powers given to the FRA, which is currently only allowed to monitor military radio communications, since it will simply mean that a supercomputer searches for easily circumventable key words in traffic to then lock onto. The 9/11 terrorists for example, referred to their attack as a "wedding," a key word absent from the search system.