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How The Government Spies On Your Internet Use

Posted by timothy on from the because-it's-vital-to-national-security dept.

intnsred writes "In explaining the recent PATRIOT act ACLU lawsuit, a D.C. civil rights lawyer writes, "I am sure that many of you reading this (and I, likely) have the government in our computers....Until now, we did not know much about how the government goes about this procedure. Now we do." Fascinating details of the case and how easy it is for the gov't to get warrantless access to you through your ISP. This clarifies and expands a previous /. article."

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  1. meh by gareth6889 · · Score: 5, Funny

    they cant get into my commodore 64!

    Mmmmm Zak McKracken :)

  2. I've never seen these, and I work at an ISP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I work at a small ISP, and I've never seen any requests for passwords or email from any law enforcement agency in the 4 years I have worked here. We have around 50,000 customers in the Northeast US. We do, however, get 1 or 2 requests per month from the RIAA or MPAA to warn our customers about distributing copyrighted material.

  3. Not my ISP by IWantMoreSpamPlease · · Score: 5, Funny

    The company I work for owns an ISP.

    We too, have had several "requests" from the RIAA for users info, etc. We told them to fuck off and get a warrant.

    Haven't seen nor heard from them again.

    Ditto the US feds.

    Some ISPs have a backbone you know.

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