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FBI pushes for surveillance backdoors in Web 2.0 tools
- petervandijck 16y agoNext thing they'll want the ability to track anyone's phone calls! Oh wait. All I can say is: leave our internet alone.
- tomjen3 16y agoMaybe instead of trying to get more power they should get their heads out of their respective asses and start doing their damn job: catch and prosecute criminals on behalf of the victims. They have no reason to be in Washington at all.
- bendmorris 16y agoTo be fair, it's the FBI's job to advocate for more power that can be used in investigation. It's someone else's job to decide whether or not they should have that power. Also, their job frequently involves speaking to members of Congress. Not saying they're right in this instance, but they are doing their job.
- stcredzero 16y agoScenario: Unbeknownst to the FBI, programmers at the companies they hired to write the backdoors and other programmers at companies they hire to audit the backdoor writers are members of Anonymous, who then conspire to put secret pet doors in the backdoors. In the meantime, /b/ has fun with memes involving 'backdoor' and even prime numbers.
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- stcredzero 16y agoReminds me of how the Hitchhiker's Guide supposedly gets written -- curious passerby wander into the offices and start writing at desks abandoned by sloshed employees on ridiculously long lunches. There's a bit more going on there than random bored people. It's random bored people subtly and vaguely herded by a few very smart people. There is no absolute command structure. It's more like starting a process, like starting a fire.
- ajays 16y agoThis is why I'm worried about companies like Greplin. For the FBI, it's 1 convenient place to go if they want all your communications.
- jonursenbach 16y agoHadn't heard about Greplin before. Interesting.
- flyt 16y agoThis is boneheaded and will never happen. No startup will make "comprehensive government wiretap ability" one of their first product priorities. If they are forced to then it'll result in companies moving to countries that don't have silly restrictions like this.
- msfreeh 16y agosee link for full story http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fbi.internal.documents/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fbi.internal.documents/... CNN exclusive: FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit January 27, 2011 Editor's note: Some content in this report may be offensive to readers. For more on this CNN exclusive story, watch Kyra Phillips' full report on "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight starting at 5 p.m. ET. Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made. A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself." And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours. These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years.