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War of words rages over Internet taps
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-04-14

The public comment period on a Justice Department proposal to make the Internet easier to wiretap ended Monday with most of the filed comments tracing a clean line between two opposing camps: on the government's side, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies who perform wiretaps, allied with companies who sell surveillance equipment and services; on the other, Internet companies who would be forced by the plan to make changes to their networks, along with advocacy groups concerned about slowed innovation and an incursion on Internet privacy.

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War of words rages over Internet taps 2004-04-19
Winston Smith er.. I mean William Ballum (1 replies)
Set u up.... 2004-04-21
Anonymous
There is no single answer for this problem.

There are too many issues with both, like trying to argue which is a better way of living for humans, a tribal way? a governed way?

both have failures in examples. No system created by humans has worked(or we would still be living under that system)

This is just like the rest of history, a bunch of power hungry bullshit that has corrupted human thinking and caused mass death and confusing to all.

The government wants a easy way out, they are too stupid to figure out things on their own and want some simple way to find out what's going on.

You all have the right ideas, the power to tap will be abused for sure, some bad bad people will be caught, but in the process there will lots of good people with files created on them tracking information about them, even to the point where there are corralations made about who/what/why these people are and do.

The fukd thing is the laws that allow the government to hold people without trials or even public knowledge because they are labelled(true or not) a terriorest.

Our government is too stupid to stop sept 11 attacks cause of personal ajendas, not cause of failures in our ability to monitor the public.

All the monitoring power in the world won't mean a thing if the person looking at the data has no clue and assumes that someone is doing something wrong.

You guys can argue all you want, but like entering the special olympics, win or lose you are still retarded.

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