Posted on 04/14/2006 1:21:05 PM PDT by steve-b
The explosive idea of forcing Internet providers to record their customers' online activities for future police access is gaining ground in state capitols and in Washington, D.C....
Mandatory data retention requirements worry privacy advocates because they permit police to obtain records of e-mail chatter, Web browsing or chat-room activity that normally would have been discarded after a few months. And some proposals would require providers to retain data that ordinarily never would have been kept at all....
Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the free-market Cato Institute, was the member of the Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee who asked Chertoff about data retention last month.
In an interview this week, Harper warned that mandatory data retention may cause more harm than good. "The true criminals will go and use random Wi-Fi nodes where you can get anonymous access," he said. "You haven't done anything but increase surveillance of law-abiding citizens."
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Oh come on, the Constitution is just so passe these days. As far as Bush's government is concerned, they can have ANY info on you that is being kept by a third party without even bothering with a warrant.
It's worth checking out Tor which allows for anonymous browsing.
Why should I have to be sneaky to have some privacy. Even if I'm just watching TV I don't want someone peering in my windows to make sure the movie is PG.
Indeed it is. You make my point. The more talk there is about Government snooping on Internet Users the more you will see an acceleration in the development of applications like Tor.
Let the games begin.
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.
"and you can make a case for being safer under the socialistDems????"
Safe? I don't want to be safe. I want to be free.
Don't forget to hack the ethernet MAC address on your card. Otherwise the particular computer used in the "transaction" will be traceable. For tips on this, Google is sometimes your friend.
America is all about freedom.
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
you got me - how can you be free if not safe?
and how are you going to be free under a socialist/communist/liberal run govt?
How is this preferable to a republican gov't - even if it has warts?
Your reasoning escapes me......
Mywish would be this: I could track spammers and pop-up writers and send them a message that would make their monitors explode and the computers shut down forever.
i think you are right about this.
i'm not an info management wiz, but it seems that if the government starts to require the isp's to keep track of the content (in addition to the address) of sites that everybody visits, that the whole thing would come crashing down, since it would require infinite capacity to store everything.
Only people who need to encript will bother to deal with the hassels of encriptation. Encription is big flag that says to NSA's computers, "Look at me!" NSA can crack your 128 bit PGP in a matter of minutes.
That certainly works, but the VPN solution is elegant because it translocates your apparent point of origin to a network in the Bahamas. It can also be configured to funnel 100% of your internet traffic via the encrypted pipe so that somebody would have to be snooping the VPN gateway in the Bahamas in order to intercept your traffic, which would be outside of Federal jurisdiction.
100% of internet traffic includes file sharing/swapping services, chat programs, telnet, IRC, etc; and not just the web. Some VPN clients will even allow you to define exceptions to the rule so that legitimate network use can be broadcast normally over your network, or out to the internet unencrypted.
Quite literally VPN is the coolest privacy tool I've found. Although, I don't see why encrypted connections aren't used for everything already. Even just a simple compression algorithm would be enough to protect most data from casual snoopers.
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.
It's getting to be like there's no special status for being a Citizen. Maybe in the eyes of politicians we're all Illegals now. It's what you can do for the politician, not who you think you are and what intrinsic rights you've been deluded to presume you have.
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