The government in all their wisdom have drafted a law that when (and it will) it passes the senate we, as the ISP, will be required to play BigBrother.
At our own expense.
The draft requirements are we record all Metadata for all users and store it for a minimum of two years.
Some of the larger ISP’s are talking about charging customers a ‘surveillance tax’ and if they do it we may also follow suit. The general public is not going to be happy and this has been kept out of the primary ‘news cycle’, they are sneaking it though while ‘piracy and illegal downloads’ are the big reported on IT news stories.
(we will probably need to legally block piracy within the year also)
So, down to the nitty gritty… never though about it before but how can we record metadata with mikrotik.
Probably going to have the 4-5 other WiSp’s I know about in AU that use mikrotik want to know the same thing so thought id get a thread going.
What is the best way to spit this data out and record it. anyone got any ideas for us poor not-so-free Australians.
Something similar is required in the USA also, in RouterOS we have the CALEA function for that. You should see if it complies with your new law: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/CALEA
Thats what I was trying to determine though - how intensive CALEA is to shoot out info for EVERY connection running through it. I dont run Connection Tracking on Core/Border, and I am guessing CALEA will require it.
$2-3k isn’t much to invest in a solution so if I can have a CCR in a ‘pass-through’ kind of mode so it has to do little to route the traffic, just monitor connections, should be pretty cheap solution with that + a NAS.
The other thing of course is finding out if the CALEA information will satisfy the AU government requirements.