This is really quite scary. It's not because I do anything illegal, but Carnivore makes interception of all my net traffic possible. Just think of what they can use this for! If there is ever a return to McCarthyism, and I read something about, say, Karl Marx, I could immediately be marked as a "Red" - draw any parallels with any other "subversive" elements. While I feel that "Big Brother" is useful for the prevention and detection of internet-related crime, such as "immoral" BO2000 use etc, the flip-side is that we lose a part of our freedom.
How legal is this? Is it, for example, legal here in Britain? Can any intelligence agency in the world just switch it on and type in my name and monitor my activities? This seems to enable monitoring from a distance - therefore, though I am in Britain, could the FBI snoop on me and get away with it because they're on US soil?
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This is really quite scary. It's not because I do anything illegal, but Carnivore makes interception of all my net traffic possible. Just think of what they can use this for! If there is ever a return to McCarthyism, and I read something about, say, Karl Marx, I could immediately be marked as a "Red" - draw any parallels with any other "subversive" elements. While I feel that "Big Brother" is useful for the prevention and detection of internet-related crime, such as "immoral" BO2000 use etc, the flip-side is that we lose a part of our freedom. How legal is this? Is it, for example, legal here in Britain? Can any intelligence agency in the world just switch it on and type in my name and monitor my activities? This seems to enable monitoring from a distance - therefore, though I am in Britain, could the FBI snoop on me and get away with it because they're on US soil?