I accept Congress can disavow this before December the 1st, hence the EFF's call to action - but the article does state this is a new & overreaching use of this

I accept Congress can disavow this before December the 1st, hence the EFF's call to action - but the article does state this is a new & overreaching use of this procedure. "By law, the rules and proposals are supposed to be procedural and must not change substantive rights. But the amendment to Rule 41 isn’t procedural at all. It creates new avenues for government hacking that were never approved by Congress." > overestimating what the NSA has. The secret rooms at AT&T, like 641A that Mark Klein whistleblew in 2006, suggests they had the potential for universal domestic collection capability of everything domestic since 2003. Other Five Eyes may have similar hardwired intercepts abroad. Snowden's XKeyscore slide shows collection of 'nearly everything a user does online'[1]. Otherwise I agree that encryption exists that the NSA is not known to be able to defeat with the caveat that courts can currently order decryption and jail those in contempt. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-...