FBI to gain expanded hacking powers as Senate effort to block fails

[rooty]

right - they been doing that shit for Years. No problems here although I'm not brown and from Seria






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On Dec 4, 2016, 3:38 PM, Mirimir wrote:

On 12/04/2016 04:19 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
>
>
> On 12/04/2016 01:27 PM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
>> On Dec 4, 2016 3:03 PM, "rooty" <arpspoof at protonmail.com
>> <mailto:arpspoof at protonmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is a good thing - war on terror here we come
>
>> No, boy, it is _not_ a good thing. The governments and its
>> institutions and agencies are the real terror and they will use 'a
>> greater good' -- terrorism, paedophilia, spying, whatever -- as
>> excuse to disrespect people's privacy and violate civil rights,
>> creating new laws for justify their vile actions, if necessary. Or
>> simply ignoring the already existent legislation and all the
>> international agreements.
>
> I don't think the FBI will gain expanded powers of surveillance;
> rather, they will gain the ability to use information they already
> routinely gather by illegal means openly, in Court filings. Where
> previously they had to work around the law by using illegal methods to
> locate information that is admissible in Court ("parallel
> construction"), they will be able to take a much more direct approach.
>
> :o/

Yes, that's reality. FBI leeches data and skills from NSA. And NSA does
whatever it wants to. US is always at war. And there are no laws in war.
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