FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone

Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, writes "There are places where criminal activity is centralized: the backbone hubs located in hosting facilities across the country. All of the Internet's activity, legal and illegal, flows through these 'choke points,' and the feds, of course, are already tapping those points and siphoning off data. What Mueller wants is the legal authority to comb through the backbone data, which is already being siphoned off by the NSA, in order to look for illegal activity."

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[davidwr]

The legal authority to block anything he can't read.

I would say "Welcome to Soviet America" but the feds have had the "we can do what we want in the name of protecting the country damn the Constitution" attitude off and on since the 1700s.

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[1lus10n]

That works when there is a utopian zen type balance.

That doesnt exist. They have the guns, money and data needed to control everything. Try building a private army to resist and see what happens.

We were given these rights, and people sacrificed more than you know defending these rights. Now we are flushing it all away for security (not a new concept) god (ditto) and 'protecting' the kids/grandma/your sister. (that one is kinda new).

In the good old days (retarded statement) there would have been bloodshed over something like this, and that is where balance would have been achieved. Revolutions are not fought and won in a voting booth.

so much for probable cause

[EllynGeek]

Why is it so easy to trash the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and so hard to put them back? What a bunch of assholes. They must have had the words "probable cause" surgically removed from their brains.

Re:There are places where criminal activity is c

[Prisoner's Dilemma]

>> "There are places where criminal activity is centralized..."

Yes there are. The White House, NSA, Dept of Homeland Security.