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- aliengoods, on 01/17/2008, -1/+72Of course he wants to be able to eavesdrop on everything. Have you met a fascist who didn't?
- pintomp3, on 01/17/2008, -0/+55what kind of stupid ass bizarro world do we live in? everything the government does is secret and the public has no right to know about, but the government is allowed to spy on it's own citizens? they have flipped around the one way mirror.
- yaryarhumphump, on 01/17/2008, -0/+33"Americans will have to trust the government not to abuse the authority............"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - inactive, on 01/17/2008, -0/+30Because Al-Qaeda uses hotmail?
- sundancekid503, on 01/17/2008, -0/+25That's why I only email in pig latin
ackcray isthay uckerfay! - diggduggDOOM, on 01/17/2008, -0/+24Go to hell McConnell. Remember when we used to disparage other countries for spying on their citizens?
Too bad privacy has all but lost its value in this country. I don't limit that to our government, either. People seem perfectly content to post private pictures and information on MySpace and Facebook.
I'm afraid we will all have to learn a very painful lesson to remind us just how essential privacy really is. - Subriot, on 01/17/2008, -0/+21Hey McConnell, save this: 9-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0.
- elipabst, on 01/17/2008, -0/+19What's funny is that they already are doing this. That ex-AT&T engineer leaked the schematics/diagrams and photos of the NSA room that splices into the main internet backbone at the AT&T hub in San Francisco, which virtually all the major service providers (MAE-West, Qwest, Genuity, UUNET, Sprint, Level-3) pass through. IMHO this seems like a "let's get permission after we've been doing it already" situation that this administration is famous for. Don't kid yourself, there is no privacy on the internet unless you are encrypting.
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http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006 ... - pintomp3, on 01/17/2008, -0/+19fascism.
- pintomp3, on 01/17/2008, -0/+15they use Al-Yahoo.
- arowan, on 01/17/2008, -1/+15Is it fascism yet?
- Bonekhan, on 01/17/2008, -1/+14What does my spam have to do with the pubic interest? Except if this guy wants cheap Viagra, I guess, it seems pretty stupid.
- calbff, on 01/17/2008, -0/+13I'm assuming that was a really ironic typo and not intentional.
- Drakkor, on 01/17/2008, -0/+12Yeah,and they can start by finding all those "missing" White House emails
- duckyinc, on 01/17/2008, -1/+13Enjoy your netneutrality before it goes guys
- foxtyke, on 01/17/2008, -0/+11More and more I see the United States become less of a Representative Democracy and more of an Representative Dictatorship, it's less about who is the better man and more about who is going to screw you less in the long run. The desire to protect the country from external threats to keep our citizens safe is one thing but to say that we need to be spied upon to be protected from possible threats, that is more harmful than any terrorist threat that can be thwarted with these expanded powers.
- jessehadden, on 01/17/2008, -0/+11Of course he wants it, but he has no f'n right to it. Period.
- seraphisset, on 01/17/2008, -2/+13No.
- Subriot, on 01/17/2008, -0/+11AT&T is with connection to the NSA (government). Also, the Intel the article is talking about is not the company for processors, it's the noun abbreviation of intelligence, U.S Intelligence Chief (government).
- williamdyer, on 01/17/2008, -0/+10Which is why we should make this snooping a capital crime and hang the *****.
- bsdboy, on 01/17/2008, -0/+9Who does he think he is? An exec at at&t?
- mtekk, on 01/17/2008, -0/+9no not Intel the company, intel as in intelligence.
- arbulus, on 01/17/2008, -0/+9Yup. Dubya make it perfectly clear that we have every reason to fear those in power wanting to consolidate their power and remove checks and balances.
- pimpofpixels, on 01/17/2008, -0/+8Fourth Amendment
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. - overtoke, on 01/17/2008, -0/+8The government (with the help of the phone companies) have and are already doing this. They have been doing it for many years. They are simply trying to make it legal (and retroactive.)
- borez, on 01/17/2008, -0/+7Time to find a way of tunneling through the Cisco routers and building our own underground net people
- arbulus, on 01/17/2008, -0/+7Look to the other end of the spectrum. It's definitely fascism.
- lastplace, on 01/17/2008, -2/+9and I want a pony.
- krnldmp, on 01/17/2008, -0/+7What they're already doing is already illegal.
- sekhui, on 01/17/2008, -0/+6no you moron. it's the ***** constitution. it's about my rights. you can ***** on yours all you want but i like mine.
- locojones, on 01/17/2008, -0/+6Amen. Get a ***** warrant.
- Rickler, on 01/17/2008, -0/+6*registers domain*
- crimsonnblue, on 01/17/2008, -0/+6Wow ***** this guy. Companies need to learn how to protect their internal Network.. Monitoring all traffic coming into the US shouldn't be needed.
- dgh1973, on 01/17/2008, -0/+6I thought they already did this... tell you what, someone post plans for a nuclear device here and let's find out.
- d03boy, on 01/17/2008, -0/+6so who's going to be the first to hack into this guys email and make it public?
- Jlaugh, on 01/17/2008, -1/+6Since the civil war times at minimum.
- michaelb1, on 01/17/2008, -3/+8***** it. Let him have all the power he wants. What could possibly go wrong?
- ZxEfR, on 01/17/2008, -1/+6?
- Haapi, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5Let's bring back UUCP.
- KelticKal, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5 The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
- arbulus, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5If we can tap into all of the dark fiber in this country, we can have a serious underground net with insane bandwidth. I'm up for it.
- yaryarhumphump, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5That I agree with..... I may have nothing to hide but I don't want to be treated like I do... my business is none of theirs.
the people with that mentality are the ones that just roll over and let ***** like this happen, or are the ones that want it in the first place and are trying to make everyone look like they have something to hide. - borez, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5I'm sure it's doable
Time for Darknet - krnldmp, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4At the rate this country is going, if we don't start figuring it's about successful competition rather than spying, politicking, and bombing, the US government is going to be listening in on a whole ***** of laughing on "the enemy's" side and crying on "our" side.
- Elissar, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4We need to get people like him out of government; we on the Internets need to be a little more active IRL, at least a bit.
- PopcornDave, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4Look at the bigger picture here. It's not just Bush, who unless he declares martial law and stays on as dictator, but anybody after Bush as well. You can't tell me that Hillary, or any future president, isn't just licking her/their chops to have that kind of power to curtail her enemies if she were to become president.
The problem is, as someone noted below, that kids are content to put private pictures and information up on Facebook and MySpace without even thinking about a right to privacy. Hell they don't even have a ***** clue as to what it is. *Those* are the people that you need to educate. - locojones, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4Except we've seen time and time again that Muslim extremist groups use private, secured electronic communications that wouldn't be picked up by this because they don't traverse the internet. Remember the story about the group who all used the same e-mail account and exchanged ideas by using the "Save as Draft" function so the mails were never sent?
This plan will do nothing but be used to spy on Americans. It will never catch but the most idiotic and nonthreatening people in society. And it will do absolutely nothing for security. This guy, and anybody who supports him, should be run out of the country and humiliated. - ryan83189, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4you keep thinking that. thats what they want.
- Sidonas, on 01/17/2008, -1/+5/makes a tinfoil hat for the computer
- ZenMojo, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4McConnell, suck my dick.
(Now to wait 4 years for carnivore to transmit the message...) -
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