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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. Re:What's the point by R.Caley · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is, of course, why gpg/pgp is such a great idea--an open source encryption method allows you to look for said back-door.

    Have you read the Ken Thompson's classic paper on putting trapdoors into open source systems?

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