FSB has remembered days when all radios receivers in the Soviet Union were subjected to obligatory registration, and is going to adapt old rules to the conditions of "information revolution", says InfoxRu website.

 A draft prohibiting selling of USB-modems without a passport is being developed in the department.
 
Lawyers and technical experts are assured of meaninglessness of the initiatives of FSB: registration of the buyers of USB-modems actually would not identify the subscriber, as modems that work with networks of Wi-Fi and WiMAX, do not transmit registration information to the network.

 Meanwhile the Lubyanka (FSB HQ) has considered selling USB-modems without a passport an "abnormal practice". As a result, the FSB is developing a draft that restricts selling of mobile devices.
 
Now, a passport is required when purchasing a USB-modem only in cases when the device is got along with a SIM-card, or when a contract with the subscriber is concluded at the purchasing.

The independent experts are surprised at the initiative of law enforcement agencies. They admit that they do not understand how a change in the rules of selling USB-modems will give the FSB new information on users.
 
There are modems designed to operate in networks, which provide a rigid identification of subscriber's terminal, it is a GSM and CDMA. This allows you to attach a hardware ID to the individual subscriber. As for Wi-Fi and WiMAX, that modem is not transmitting to the network registration information, it is absolutely senseless to sell them by passport.
 
Wi-Fi or WiMAX networks works with any modem, that address to them, so it is not a problem to buy a modem in Ukraine and use it in Moscow", experts commenting on the initiative of FSB. 

Source: Kavkaz Center