Obama Admin Wants to Allow Web Wiretapping

[kinggraves]

First they disallow encryption in the name of security.
Then they can legally decrypt torrents, allowing them the legal venue to chase after "pirates" in the name of powerful lobbies like the RIAA and MPAA.

 

[zachary k]

"ok, lets see what this guy is doing. click that link....OH GOD ALT+F4!!!"
also, they need a legal wiretapping order, you have to be a suspect of a crime. people just need to stop exploding things way bigger than it needs to be.

 

[BulkZerker]

Advertisements in my dreams? Wut?

 

[randomizer]

I expect that eventually we'll be expected to keep unencrypted copies of all encrypted data on our hard disks so the Government can check it out if they think we might be doing something they don't like.

[citation][nom]aleccj1[/nom]Ridiculous... This is why I'm slowly losing faith in our government.[/citation]
Only slowly? Man, I went from not caring to losing all faith in the Australian Government in a matter of 6 months or less.

[citation][nom]zachary k[/nom]also, they need a legal wiretapping order, you have to be a suspect of a crime. people just need to stop exploding things way bigger than it needs to be.[/citation]
Exactly. The next bill will rectify this inconvenience. That's exactly how Government works; chip away a little bit at a time.

If this doesn't pass, they'll water down the bill until it does. Once everyone gets used to the new invasion of privacy they'll try and chip away your freedoms with another outrageous bill that will get watered down until it just fits inside the realm of acceptable - a bit further along than the last one. Lather, rinse, repeat.

People are quite happy to give up freedom as long as it happens gradually and as long as it has a terrifying justification.

 

[nforce4max]

They have been doing this for years under the Bush administration and even before that except they are not yet fully able to wiretap every one and instead rely on key word searches and selective targeting of specific ip addresses.

 

[spentshells]

they are already doing it. Now they want you to know they are doing it legally. America seriously why don't you do something about this?
Patriot act ?? why does this exist ?? is it to be sure you are being patriotic ? reminds me of a book about some time in the 80's

 

[bpislife]

Like they don't already do this. Please...

 

[chodaboy]

I used to like the guy: I'm European, so he's better than the talking monkey that came before, but with these kinds of shenanigans the warm feeling is rapidly fleeting.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]FloKid[/nom]Technically we are all being traced even now on the web. Each website can know your IP, and the moderators know what you are browsing. Nothing special here, just would weed out some of the baddies better.[/citation]
You are the reason that stuff likes this keeps happening. With that attitude, it would not take long until we live in a police state.

 

[jimmysmitty]

How about the Obama Admin bites my fleshy human butt?

They already invade our privacy by allowing the RIAA and MPAA to see what we have and they do nothing to protect consumers from the fals ads that steal information or the fake AV programs that make people buy another fake product and then get taken for even more money.

They say its to protect us yet they don't do a good job of it now so why should we even trust them?

 

[Guest]

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[Guest]

i support Obama but not on this wtf

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Ever since 9/11, everyone that wears a towel on their head is a damn terrorist, according to the government and we need to wipe out all these terrorists and protect ourselves. Obama kept saying that we "took our eye off the ball" (being Afganistan) when we invaded Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein. Did we forget that most of our day-to-day problems stem from Mexico and not the terrorists in the middle east? Seems like it. We will continue to suffer more murders per year because of Mexico than we did on 9/11. I'm glad our priorities are where they shouldn't be.

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]bsbsbsbs[/nom]This isn't to prevent crime or to be able to track down criminals, it's purely for control of the people. The Government wants more control over it's people so they know exactly where we are and what we're doing and how often we wipe our asses. Don't be surprised when in 20 or so years, a law is passed for mandatory chips in every new born baby so they can "identify" us a lot easier. As if they don't wiretap the internet already anyway. Terrorism is a cash camel. It gives them "justification" on spending billions and billions of dollars on weapons, the army, etc which in turn boosts the economy.[/citation]

lets make a BIG distinction here. being able to identify us is different from tracking us. i'm all for a chip that can be read, and can give anyone anywhere your medical information, in case you have severe enough medical problems alone, where no one can tell them who you are and what they can and cant do you you. or to identify you as in lets say chucky cheese has a monitor and a list of sex criminals in it and when you go through you are identified. im all in favor of those kind of passive devices

what you are saying is a gps device to know where you are at any given time and that is far from ok, however, in minors under the age of 16, it should be mandatory, and the information give only to cops and to parents.

 

[Guest]

Has anyone remembered Dwight D. Eisenhower farewell speech "the military industrial complex?" He warned us about it in 1961 and now its the cancer of the US in the 21st century. Why do we need to spend a trillion every year on military RD and wars? It just makes me sad that we have to go through this as a necessary.

 

[Guest]

Has anyone remembered Dwight D. Eisenhower farewell speech "the military industrial complex?" He warned us about it in 1961 and now its the cancer of the US in the 21st century. Why do we need to spend a trillion every year on military RD and wars? It just makes me sad that we have to go through this as a necessary.

 

[Guest]

Has anyone remembered Dwight D. Eisenhower farewell speech "the military industrial complex?" He warned us about it in 1961 and now its the cancer of the US in the 21st century. Why do we need to spend a trillion every year on military RD and wars? It just makes me sad that we have to go through this as a necessary.

 

[Guest]

Has anyone remembered Dwight D. Eisenhower farewell speech "the military industrial complex?" He warned us about it in 1961 and now its the cancer of the US in the 21st century. Why do we need to spend a trillion every year on military RD and wars? It just makes me sad that we have to go through this as a necessary.

 

[Guest]

sorry for the extra posts, did not mean to do that...

 

[Zerk]

[citation][nom]Darkerson[/nom]If thats the case, I want Obama to go to hell. I know they want to catch the bad guys before they do something bad, but ever since 9/11 we keep losing more and more privacy in the name of national security...[/citation]


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