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FBI Adds to Wiretap Wish List
WorkEmail writes "A far-reaching proposal from the FBI, made public Friday, would require all broadband Internet providers, including cable modem and DSL companies, to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police. The FBI's request to the Federal Communications Commission aims to give police ready access to any form of Internet-based communications. If approved as drafted, the proposal could dramatically expand the scope of the agency's wiretap powers, raise costs for cable broadband companies and complicate Internet product development."
no, because it's not a word. you're looking for the word viola (there's supposed to be an accent on the A at the end; which would make it different from the instrument. it's italian I think.)
FreeBSD for the impatient.
All my commmunication will have to have GW is Double-Plus Good as the header :) Using words such as Terrorism, Nader for President, and Same-Sex Marriage will merit an immediate termination.
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To avoid any potentially deadly misunderstandings, I'd advise you not to play a Counter-Strike "terrorist."
Some visionary should write a book about a future dystopia and call it 2040. Then Apple can come out with a cool new commercial in 2040, with a dubbed over voice saying, "god damn it. it's happened.", and have a gunshot fire with the sound of a body falling to the ground. right?
The FBI seeks to appoint a senior AOL linguist. The successful candidate will form a 1337 team able to translate AOL to American English in real-time as part of a stimulating new FBI initiative...
Next they'll bill the suspect for being investigated and failing to produce justification for an arrest warent.
Improves law enforcment and cuts the budget.. What could be wrong?
Oh right.. paying for being innocent.
I don't actually exist.
Similar concept but I think everything should be encrypted. Notes to mom, grocery list to the s.o., plans for laser beams mounted on fricken sharks, encrypt it. Fuck em, let em spend a ton of money decrypting a note to my g.f. asking to pick up drycleaning... Overload the system.
At the bottom of the endless pile of paper work which characterizes all regulation lies a gun.
Alan Greenspan
We all need to install internet cameras in our tolits...with a direct feed to the FBI.
It's funny to see one of these incorrect corrections.
Everyone else has fixed your error, I'm just here to laugh at you.
I give it 37 minutes. Tops.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Diplomatic communications between embassies and the homeland are encrypted. And to make sure they're not vulnerable to decryption, information is continuously transferred. However, when there is no information to be transmitted, random garbage is sent.
So, what we need to do is to flood the Internet with random garbage; let the FBI sift through that!!!
Oh, wait! This system already exists: it's called USENET!!!!
That may have been true a few years ago, but fortunately we now have an administration with the will and wisdom to make our children and grandchildren pay instead. So live it up and just hope you die before the bill shows up!
"A far-reaching proposal from the FBI, made public Friday, would require all American citizens, including anyone who has visited or can spell America, to rewire their assholes to support easy probing by police.
Okay, so if myself, 997 other innocent users and two criminals are all connected to a single IM server, and all are encrypting their traffic, then which two users are the criminals?
The people running the IM server, of course. Only terrorists encrypt their traffic, and if you're not with us, you're against us.
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