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FBI Pressures Internet Providers To Install Surveillance Software
An anonymous reader sends this quote from an article at CNet: "The U.S. government is quietly pressuring telecommunications providers to install eavesdropping technology deep inside companies' internal networks to facilitate surveillance efforts. FBI officials have been sparring with carriers, a process that has on occasion included threats of contempt of court, in a bid to deploy government-provided software capable of intercepting and analyzing entire communications streams. The FBI's legal position during these discussions is that the software's real-time interception of metadata is authorized under the Patriot Act. Attempts by the FBI to install what it internally refers to as 'port reader' software, which have not been previously disclosed, were described to CNET in interviews over the last few weeks. One former government official said the software used to be known internally as the 'harvesting program.'"
Sheldon, shut up.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Be seditionist, corrupt morals, piss on their gods and tell them to fuck off.
If I piss on their gods all my cash will be wet and stinky.
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