Some History

[Ryan Carboni]

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
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