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Net Taps Without Warrants?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-a-surprise-at-all dept.

disappear writes "In the wake of yesterday's threats to cryptography, more ominous news: Wired News reports that a bill permitting warrantless Internet surveilance has been passed by the Senate." This is just part of the expected and unfortunate backlash from tuesday. The terrorists are winning simply because the govt. can use their threat as a blank check to take away our rights. The worst part is that this will do no good whatsoever. Does the govt really think that crypto export restrictions have prevented terrorists from having strong crypto?

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. Drop Jon Katz on Afghanistan! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That will teach the bastards. Katz is worse than any nuclear device.

    1. Re:Drop Jon Katz on Afghanistan! by motherhead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Surely you are joking friend. Actually useing Jon Katz would be irresponsible. the correct tactical use of a Jon Katz is the implicite threat. Certainly after reading a couple of movie reviews the Taliban will have bin ladan trussed and delivered to the Pakinstani border within hours...

  3. Re:Microsoft == Taliban by WildBeast · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    only on Slashdot

  4. Re:Microsoft == Taliban by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What an incredible coincidence!

    For those who don't have that amazing font installed, N is a skull and crossbones, and Y is the star of david

  5. Re:this is a good thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bravo. excellent troll.

  6. Re:Bye, bye war on drugs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Osoma bin Laden is Emmanuel Goldstein.

  7. Re:Conventional and Unconventional Wars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IT's fucking spelled lose NOT loose!!!!

    CAN'T YOU FUCKING IDIOTS ON SLASHDOT FIGURE THIS OUT? I see this shit all of the time here!!!!

  8. Re:Benjamin Franklin said it best... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Amen, brother.

  9. Re:Conventional and Unconventional Wars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Put down that flame thrower, my friend! While I, too, find the improper usage of the words lose and loose to be annoying, I cannot help but point out that your post has several grammatical and punctuation errors. One should not flame without first ensuring that one is not drenched in gasoline.

    Posted anonymously for my pleasure.

  10. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There is no privacy. Get over it.

    (Posted "Anonymously")

  11. Re:Backdoors. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I want to fuck you up your backdoor.

  12. this sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    they better not spy on me having cybersex with CmdrTaco...

  13. Re:Islam, thank you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm feeling horny. I want to shove my 12" long cock up your ass.

  14. one step at a time by iomud · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously, there are still over 4000 people unaccounted for still it's only been three days, and you're worried about people reading your email. Lets put things in perspective if only for a moment then you can go back to being paranoid. The price of this attack is being payed with what I believe is the temporary bending of the rules if my isp decides to cooperate without being issued a warrant, after all I'm subject to certain types of monitoring in the tos already. While I dont want to be monitored I can understand the temporary need to gather as much information as possible, the question we need to ask: Is it worth another attack because we couldnt retrieve vital information that might help in stopping it. I think the answer is no. Granted in the future when things settle down I would not want to be monitored but under the circumstances I can understand it. As for the alteration of encryption software to suit the government, it's a laughable idea. You'll do anything to help you say, anything but this? Things will go back to normal just not today or tomarrow, it will take time.

  15. Re:Thats wyat the Supreme court is for by slashdot_commentator · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Oh damn, I posted this already. I hope they don't start snooping for my TCP/IP connections 2 years from now...

    --
    There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
  16. Re:Crypto - and why backdoors won't work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Turkey is anti-USA? You must be joking. Turkey is a member of NATO, and part of the alliance against terrorism...

  17. StarGate SG1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Starski - We need to talk - Hutch

  18. Re:Question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    U R A TOOL!!!

  19. Re:Hell no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Such as where?

    It's so depressing that the U.S. is the most free country in the world (as far as I can tell), but not very free at all.

  20. Re:You don't have... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    well there's my cock... but you can see it if you want ;-)

  21. Re:You don't have... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  22. Back Doors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yo,

    What makes you think they can't listen to you now... MMMuhuhuhuhuhu (with my pinky up to the corner of my mouth). I just betcha that the top secret NSA deployed processors are way fast enough to crack a 128 bit key. And I also betcha that NSA and CIA tap stuff now. I further guess that the real problem is who, where, and when, not cracking a key: ).

    The top secret government stuff has always been 10 years ahead of us lowly consumers. We just don't find out about it until it is going obselete and there is a leak.

    l8,
    ac