"U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet"

Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order. The mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages.

After reading the entire article, I'm afraid my first reaction was, "Umm, good luck with that." Could be an interesting tech story to watch.

Dear Diary

Dear Diary,

Today was another one of those low-level bad days. I'm really rather sick of those days. Not a terribly high level of pain, but not much of anything fun either. Too tired to go anywhere, too unfocused to read a book, too likely to pass out if I try sitting upright long enough to watch a movie, and too restless to sleep, I spent too much of the day either lying in bed trying to sleep or sitting here at the computer getting caught up in little web pages quickly forgotten once visited. All I'm really sure of is that politicians are doing things they shouldn't be doing; but I knew that already, didn't I?

On the plus side, the weather does not feel like July today and we probably won't be having record high temperatures anytime in the next week (though, given how difficult this year's weather has been for the weather prognosticators, I'm not placing any bets). I have enough Honeycrisp apples, Asian pears, dark chocolate, and multiple kinds of tea-like beverages to carry me through the week, or at least till the next farmers' market. And after years of not producing sound when it should, my AM/FM/shortwave/longwave radio has been working fairly reliably for the last few months, so I might even be able to get back into the habit of listening to a music collection not my own. Let's see what the local popular music station is playing... right, three seconds is enough of that for tonight.

Anyway, I'm here, I'm hoping to get back into the habit of writing LJ/Dw entries, and I'm terribly sorry that this one is so boring. There's always tomorrow, eh?