arstechnica.com — A few weeks back, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco issued an important ruling about Internet privacy?or lack thereof. Reaction to the case has been mixed; some commentators see it as a logical extension of existing telecommunications policy, while others view it with the same sort of enthusiasm generally reserved for the..
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miriclaireJul 16, 2007
Well, he is understating the reasons for fear there. It's a horrible mess with rampant racism and youth a hopeless and impoverished youth.
miriclaireJul 16, 2007
THE QUESTION IS< WHY? Why do YOU need to mask your emails? Unless you are seriously suspected of criminal activity, what's the big deal? I am willing to support movements to catch the bad guys!
mumblyjoeJul 16, 2007
"I want to know who George Bush is emailing."Sorry, Karl Rove accidentally deleted those. Trust me, he feels REAL bad about it.
lotekJul 16, 2007
If you check you facts you'll see that fascism as a political camp has been around since 1921. And any text on rational debate might enlighten you to the fact that sarcasm and ad hominum do not comprise a valid (or even interesting) argument.Your comments would likely be taken more seriously if you either knew what you were talking about or had something midly intelligent to say about it.
holyharmoniaJul 16, 2007
yeah.sometimes on websites you even get the message about insecure connection.the thing with that message is that you're supposed to assume that's the case with every website you visit and every email address you have.the contents of each message is the only thing that you can assume to be safe with, at least at this point in time.
fishbertJul 17, 2007
From the article:"This is analogous to the US Postal Service, where anyone can read information on the outside of an envelope but can't look at the contents. The Ninth Circuit ruled that grabbing e-mail addresses and IP addresses without a warrant amounts to the same thing, and is legal."The ruling does not allow the reading of email without a warrant. The headline is misleading.
afdiesel26Nov 28, 2007
The issue of who technically has legal jurisdiction over the Internet is a very important and argued upon issue. Their is a line between privacy and security. I personally believe that the U.S. government has violated the Constitution by invading people's privacy through reading email's and other things along those lines. The U.S. Constitution was not created to deal with such issues as the ones currently faced on the Internet, and I believe the only way to legally regulate the Internet is by creating an amendment and whole separate document that is solely for regulation of the Internet.