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FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone

Posted by kdawson on from the say-please dept.

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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  1. Re:And how do we break the backbone? by plague3106 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is your thoughts on drunk driving checkpoints? Because government seems to think it IS ok to pull someone over just for driving down the street.