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Feds Want Access to Your Machine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-trust-the-DOJ dept.

PDA Buzz wrote to us with the latest privacy-invasion scheme. The Clinton Administration plans to ask Congress to give police authority to go secretely into people's computers, search for passwords and override encryption programs, "using devices, if needed".Investigators would need to have a sealed warrant to carry this out, but privacy groups are casting this as an invasion of the home. Shades of the Clipper Chip, anyone? Check this out for another report as well.

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  1. It's worse than you think. by Shoeboy · · Score: 3

    If the police get a warrant, they can burst into your home and search for kiddie porn in your closet, under your bed or on top of the laundry hamper in your bathroom. They can also override any security procedures you have installed to prevent this - like a door lock. Heavens! We have to do something to stop this invasion of privacy.
    --Shoeboy.