Declan McCullagh writes on C-NET the FBI is pushing for new legal cover to remove the next layer of electronic privacy in a nation-wide dragnet. Our various intelligence agencies had all of data sets needed to track the 9-11 plot and failed to do this. Removing more of our hard-fought rights will do nothing to make our Brave Dear Leaders "die Heimat-Sicherheit" connect more dots and can only be akin to throwing more haystacks on the needle.
Lost in this bureaucratic rush to sniff each and everyone's electronic shorts is how this back-door un-locking master-key mechanism means savvy criminals and clever terrorists will get in and mouse around your files just as easily as poltical operatives looking for petty reasons to smear someone. It's little different from the government having your internet provider pay to install cameras in your bedroom - and given how ever-more computers have built-in webcams this is all too real.
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The 1% of crooked cops alone will ensure the underworld is passing these master codes around within weeks of implimentation. Add in political vendetta, incompetence like the VA db's being stolen and you have a Grade-A identity-theft clusterf*ck nobody will be able to stuff back into Pandora's Black Box.
What happened to getting court orders and the ol' Rule of Law?
OK, Libertarians, Conservatives, uber-Patriots, are you going to fight this sort of intrusive snooping -or- are you scared enough to drop your cries of freedom and liberty in a knee-jerk retreat to the arms of the nearest neo-Stalin waving boogeymen on your TV? If you can't get it up for this so-called Conservative administration will you be able to do so when so-called Progressives rule?
Crunch time for testing all of our internal "constitutions".