Murder can not be investigated because of shared IP addresses – New Technology

       

Police Authority has recently notified Tele2 and Telenor to the National Post and Telecom Agency, PTS. The reason is that the police asked the companies to disclose IP addresses that can reveal who sent or received messages on the Internet in connection with preliminary investigations into serious crimes.

But operators say they have been unable to develop the IP addresses because they are not stored in the systems.

The reason is that there is a shortage of IP addresses. Therefore lumps operators together some customers over the same IP address as a dynamic, random system called NAT, Network Address Translation.

The technique increasingly used by Internet service providers and means simply that different users of computers, tablets and mobiles have the same IP address when the connection to the Internet.

Police Authority now claims that the operators are obliged to store the individual IP addresses under the Electronic Communications Act, LEK. And they now want to PTS examines four cases.

Three tubes of IP addresses that you want to Tele2 leave out because they can importance in the investigation of who or what is behind hacking, murder and receiving offense.

– We have great respect for the work of the police but we can not provide the information today, and we can also note that we make different judgments about the right position – therefore we welcome this will now be examined, says Oliver Carrà, press manager at Tele2.

I another case police want to get an IP address from Telenor in connection with an investigation surrounding the purchase of sexual acts from children.

Men notified to the PTS claiming Telenor to their mobile customers surfing on a common IP numbers because of the shortage of IP numbers. The IP address uppgås be included in an IP range of “NAT addresses”.

Aaron Samuelsson, Press Officer at Telenor:

– Our systems are designed for a specification of requirements under the regulation on electronic communications and under do not need the port number is saved.

Can you help the police in any other way?

– We prefer a solution to this issue and the reasonable solution is when the new Internet Protocol, IPv6, has been fully implemented.

– Although we would save this type of data, it would mean huge amounts of data. And the police would go beyond the IP number also need to provide us with exact port number and the exact times when the port number used IP address, and our view is that it is missing today, he said.