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InstigatinMofo
05-06-2012, 10:29 PM
FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57428067-83/fbi-we-need-wiretap-ready-web-sites-now/)

what could go wrong?
Built-in vulnerabilities and secret back doors can be exploited not only by the party they were intended to serve, but to anyone else that figures out how to operate them. Something like this makes everyone less secure.


A new survey has revealed that young people are responding to tough legislation and increasing levels of online spying by investing in VPN services. It found that when compared to 2009, 40% more 15 to 25-year-olds are now hiding their activities online. (http://torrentfreak.com/young-file-sharers-respond-to-tough-laws-by-buying-a-vpn-120501/)

Or, in other news: "Governments will soon start to find ways of making 'hiding your online activity' a crime."

HeinousMark
05-07-2012, 07:54 AM
Well, why wouldn't someone want the government watching everything you say or do, unless you're guilty of heinous crimes and Anti-Americanism....It makes me feel safer that Big Brah is watching over me for my own best interests, like a guardian angel.......:facepalm:

FlaFlaFlunkie
05-26-2012, 10:26 AM
Well, why wouldn't someone want the government watching everything you say or do, unless you're guilty of heinous crimes and Anti-Americanism....It makes me feel safer that Big Brah is watching over me for my own best interests, like a guardian angel.......:facepalm:Thank God for that face palm in your post. My eyeballs were poppin' out of my head reading that. :jj: