[1]http://www.yak.net/surfpunk/issues/0105

>The FBI and the Justice Department say the initiative would
        >not expand their power, but would ensure access to the type of
        >communications they have been entitled to tap for years.


        This is totally bogus.

        The FBI has never had the right to watch computer programs
        execute.  Now that computer programs are being written as
        distributed systems, what was originally written to be an
        internal subroutine call can look like a message over the
        phone system.
        The FBI never had the right to bug corporate conference rooms.
        Now that companies are using videoconferencing, a private
        corporate conference could look like a phone call.

        Etc.

        This needs to be fought.

         - Carl

References

   1. http://www.yak.net/surfpunk/issues/0105