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

[Steve Kinney]

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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/




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