[steve-b]

Big Brother Is Watching You (not just what you're doing now, either...).

[IncPen]

Oh, no they don't.

Nope.

[InterceptPoint]

"You haven't done anything but increase surveillance of law-abiding citizens."

Might as well get on with it. It is inevitable that the politicians will give the 1984 solution a try.

The Internet, however is not without it's resources to combat the loss of privacy. PGP will grow like a weed. Encryption in general will become pervasive. It may be hard (but maybe not impossible) to hide where you go but you will be able to hide the transactions. And then, of course, they will try to outlaw encryption. Then we will all be criminals.

[antiRepublicrat]

Honestly, there's part of me that doesn't mind, the government has a warrant, it has the right to see anything. OTOH, with the precedent set that the government doesn't need a warrant for practically anything, my answer is HELL NO!

[FreePaul]

If the government doesn't do something to control all of this internet communication we could have a serious outbreak of FREE SPEECH.

[Yo-Yo]

Why build a system like Carnivore when you can just order the ISPs to do it for you?

[Realism]

A lot of countries spy on their citizens, China and Iran come to mind first. What political party is incharge now? Ahhhh yes, I will remember in November.

[coconutt2000]

The solution to this is simple.

Set up a Virtual Private Network server in the Bahamas, attach it to a huge internet pipe, and sell a subscription service for access to the VPN service. All your internet traffic will be sent via the pipe to the Bahamas, encrypted, and it will appear, for all intents and purposes, that the internet traffic is originating in the Bahamas.

For most private usage purposes, this set up will work fine. High bandwidth requirements might be a problem, but I'm sure that problem can be solved with faster servers, compression, and more bandwidth.

(Okay, so this solution isn't that simple. The simplest solution would be to piggy back off your neighbor's wireless when you're doing something naughty.)

[maine-iac7]

This would be tantamount to being able to come to your home and demand to see all your mail for the past - forever.

Gotta be illegal -

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Nail American citizens but allow ILLEGALS to do as they please.

[Common Tator]

The Internet protocol for the RADIUS server, the software that logs dial up users on and off the Internet, has always contained provisions for logging every site a user brings up in his browser.

Most ISP's keep such records at least for some period of time.

It is fairly hard to keep anything one does on the net a secret if someone wants to know what you are doing.

[the invisib1e hand]

you are your ip address that big computer in the sky...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I'd be all for this if it were a two-way street, meaning government entities were required to do the same thing, and to allow full access to the data to the public.

Like that would ever happen.

[mo]

any legal eagles...how come the 5th ammendment no longer seems to work here?

[taxcontrol]

This is so easily circumvented that the idea is dumb at face value. At MOST, the ISPs could record where you went. But with the application of IPSec and SSL tunneling, it would be easy enough to connect to a server outside of the US and then tunnel your traffic to other sites.

[glorgau]

It's just a hidden tax on ISPs and will be passed along to customers. Who get to pay for this monitoring, overhead, and storage. You and me, that's who.

[freepatriot32]

libertarian ping wow that jorge agusto sure is reigning in the fed gov huh ?Thank god a majority of the people pulled the republican lever last election

[M203M4]

Islamonazi Iran

Communist North Korea

Communist China

Communist Cuba

Islamonazi Syria

Iraq

Russia

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Gee! What a great club to join. I mean, if it is good enough for North Korea and Iran, it must be good enough for America.

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