FBI deploys email snaring device
from the who-cares-what-they-read dept
There seems to be a lot of controversy over a tool that the FBI can deploy at ISPs that allows them to scan large volumes of email to and pull out mail associated with investigation targets. Who cares? Look, if they want to read through the mail my friends and I send back and forth, more power to them. People that have something to hide have problems with this type of system...Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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I have a lot more trust that the FBI won't take my email address and SPAM the hell out of me. I don't have that same level of trust in the organizations out there that monitor email streams and the like and aggregate email addresses in the same way the FBI will be doing it.
Folks, they already have the right to tap your phone line with just cause. This is the same thing. Get over it.
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source: http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring99/fbimlk.htm
It is true that King had something to hide. Should the government be allowed to blackmail a political opponent?
Of course, the FBI did have a damned good reason to bug King. After all, he was challenging the government's right to keep his people down.
And don't think it can't happen again. For all the crimes J. Edgar Hoover committed, he was memorialized with the naming of the FBI building.
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Strange.......
I totally agree...let them spy, not like we can stop them. I dont like people going thru my stuffs, but what can I do to stop it? That is why PGP exists.
As for telephones, they can listen...I have nothing to hide....but just the fact they go thru...I dont like, but I rather the FBI do it then a private company and have them sell my addys.
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The FBI routinely collect as much information they can as it "may prove useful later". What evidence have I for this? Well, you know that the FBI used to do exhibitions of fingerprinting at shows, and that they recorded everything they got. These guys would love to have everyone's fingerprints on file.
Bottom line: witch hunts spring out of nothing. Don't give them ammunition. The real bad guys have been using secure comms for years - only stupid people use open channels to send secret stuff around! Easiest way to communicate? I buy 2 pay as you go mobiles. I mail one to you. I send you a single (coded) SMS message and we ditch the phones. Tapping ISPs
doesn't begin to touch this.
Sub-basement line: these guys don;t believe in free speech and never have.
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