, SecurityFocus 2003-11-07
How seriously does the U.S. government take computer intrusion? Seriously enough for the threat of foreign hacking to take a prominent role in new rules governing the FBI's national security investigations issued by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft this week.
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>Therefore, the FBI may take any "proactive"
> action against you, just because
> you "probed "a web site.
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>This is how a gouvernment uses people's
> fears in order to emprison a nation.
Boutzev, you sound like a teenager who buys their own propaganda.
The FBI is WAY undermanned, and somewhat underfunded. A decade of cutbacks and down-sizing have reduced their funds, and their pool of expertise from which to draw.
They have a serious enemy and when engaging that enemy they are rightly predatory. They also have no time and no resources to waste on non-prey. They arent going to go to Russian and together with the KGB hunt down innocent web surfers.
If the FBI "imprisions" russian web surfers in fear, it will do so only to ignorant, or stupid ones.
If the FBI seriously knocks on your door its because they want to save a few million lives, and you are trying to murder a few million people.
Clean hands dont go seriously probing back doors in secured governmental systems.
-me
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