Addition to my last post... I have 12 years of programming PERL, HTML, C, and much more. Almost a degree in Physics (two semesters left), research under my belt in nuclear fusion, magnetic levitation, many years as a sysadmin for windows and all types of UNIX. So don't assume all cops are dumb. You don't know who they really are. This is to those people who hold a stupid bias toward police.
As someone who is involved with the law enforcement community I will point out that in almost every search warrant to obtain information from a third party source I.E.. Phone records, Cell phone traces, ISP logs, and many others you are always working with others to gain information. Those people that you work with may not always be police officers. If this holds up it will cause a large problem. Security freaks (such as myself) want and deserve our privacy. However, when people are thinking of hurting or killing others should that information be off limits? If a police officer was able to obtain information that would stop your mother, daughter, son, etc.. from being hurt or killed would you want to give the advantage to him or the police? The person that was released was a child pornographer. Was the law protecting the rights of the children or the sicko in this case? As Sir Robert Peel said
"...the community is the police and the police are the community"
It is ALL of our responsibility to protect the innocent. Some people are paid to do it for a living. If you could stop a child pornographer would you? That is what this is about. This CASE LAW is saying that only the police can protect the public. It is ALL of our duty to protect the public. You shouldn't let anyone take that right away from you.
Of course, an easy way around this is to temporarly deputize anyone you need and then they are a law enforcement officer for as long as you need them.
I am a UNIX geek and I have used UNIX all my computer life and as such I expect a level of security with my systems. I have always built my own firewalls and reinstalled my systems when they came preinstalled. So as a UNIX geek I would never log in as root, however most sane people just want to use their computers and not worry about logins and such. Most of them have a different level of security that they want and are used to. I think more than anything this is a personal preference issue on a SINGLE user system.
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Addition to my last post... I have 12 years of programming PERL, HTML, C, and much more. Almost a degree in Physics (two semesters left), research under my belt in nuclear fusion, magnetic levitation, many years as a sysadmin for windows and all types of UNIX. So don't assume all cops are dumb. You don't know who they really are. This is to those people who hold a stupid bias toward police.
As someone who is involved with the law enforcement community I will point out that in almost every search warrant to obtain information from a third party source I.E.. Phone records, Cell phone traces, ISP logs, and many others you are always working with others to gain information. Those people that you work with may not always be police officers. If this holds up it will cause a large problem. Security freaks (such as myself) want and deserve our privacy. However, when people are thinking of hurting or killing others should that information be off limits? If a police officer was able to obtain information that would stop your mother, daughter, son, etc.. from being hurt or killed would you want to give the advantage to him or the police? The person that was released was a child pornographer. Was the law protecting the rights of the children or the sicko in this case? As Sir Robert Peel said
"...the community is the police and the police are the community"
It is ALL of our responsibility to protect the innocent. Some people are paid to do it for a living. If you could stop a child pornographer would you? That is what this is about. This CASE LAW is saying that only the police can protect the public. It is ALL of our duty to protect the public. You shouldn't let anyone take that right away from you.
Of course, an easy way around this is to temporarly deputize anyone you need and then they are a law enforcement officer for as long as you need them.
I am a UNIX geek and I have used UNIX all my computer life and as such I expect a level of security with my systems. I have always built my own firewalls and reinstalled my systems when they came preinstalled. So as a UNIX geek I would never log in as root, however most sane people just want to use their computers and not worry about logins and such. Most of them have a different level of security that they want and are used to. I think more than anything this is a personal preference issue on a SINGLE user system.