Browsing Privacy - Off With Your Headers!

andyo writes: "Incredible assertion in this Wired article that 'Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the identities of their e-mail correspondents, or the addresses of Web pages they visit.' Cites two senators who I'd thought to be more clueful (Orrin Hatch and Chuck Schumer)." Sure, the FBI should be able to check out every URL I visit without a warrant. They'll never abuse that power.

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Re:The ultra Conservative right

[sigwinch]

What is scaring you guys with these proposals??? The FBI may scan your emails? Log your web-traffic? What about every curious sys. admin. in every ISP that your traffic goes throu? They all already have the power to do this.

Hear hear. *Anybody* can set up an ISP or backbone and do *whatever they want* with the traffic. That packet you send across town to your friend who uses a different ISP could easily travel through *twenty* intermediate nodes in a variety of countries. Shit, people, how do you know Osama bin Laden isn't monitoring everything you send in the clear? I mean, he's go the money, resources, and will to do it, and to ruthlessly use the information he gathers to bring down the Western economy. And you simpering weak-ankled fucktards are bitching about the *FBI*?!?!!!!

THIS IS A CLEAR CALL TO BEGIN THE UNIFORM USE OF ENCRYPTION *FOR ALL 'NET COMMUNICATIONS*. Or you dipshits can just stick your worthless hollow heads back in the sand and pretend that if the FBI isn't allowed to snoop your traffic that neither is the Enemy.

Mayor Giuliani for Attorney General

[Animats]

It's becoming clear that Ashcroft just isn't up to the job of Attorney General in a crisis. We need a better Attorney General. And there's one available: Mayor Giuliani. Giuliani's term expires at the end of this year, and he's prevented by term limits from running again. So he's available.

Giulani used to be a prosecutor. And not just any prosecutor; he's the one who took down the New York Mafia, something people thought was impossible. That's exactly the kind of job stopping terrorism will be like - taking apart a big, secretive illegal organization. He's done it before. Ashcroft hasn't. Giulani is effective at being tough on crime, something very, very few politicians can show a track record on.

Giulani can manage tough organizations. Compared to running the NYC government, the Justice Department will be easy. He's a problem-solver. Ashcroft is an ideologue.

Giulani is popular with both voters and Congress. Ashcroft lost an election to a dead guy. The Senate was reluctant to confirm Ashcroft as AG, and with good reason. Nobody will miss Ashcroft. Bush will look good if he makes this change.

The AG serves at the pleasure of the President; Bush can replace Ashcroft any time he wants. So that's the real solution. Push on Bush to dump Ashcroft and put Giulani in.

This whole morass

[Schwarzchild]

is beginning to sound suspiciously like Robert Heinlein's future history especially the part where Nehemiah Scudder (G.W. Bush Jr), a religious zealot, is elected President sometime after the year 2000 and turns America into a religious dictatorship.