I am also skeptical. At the same time, I wonder what some of those who object most vociferously to this program (but probably unwilling to even research the details of the program beyond even this somewhat poorly written article) would have to say about the gov’t programs to intercept/eavesdrop on telephone conversations between known international terrorist phone numbers and domestic phone numbers, or about the monitoring of foreign banking transactions of known or suspected terrorist organizations.
I am amused by the statements here that you have nothing to worry about if there is no porn on your computer....that all they will do is enter your home with a search warrant and seize your computer and then return it when they are through digging in it.
First, since when is it of no consequence that the cops enter your house and go through all of your private papers and business????
Second, who has a computer that does not have something private on it, even if it is only his bank account and stock investments?
Third, why can’t the holy and pure see that this is unreasonable search. Clicking is not probable cause,,,downloading is.
Last, I have a new Logitech mouse and when I use it with linux, which I am now, it occasionally gets very sensitive and will click when I don’t intend for it to. For instance, when looking at the weather, it will occasionally click on one of the ads as I pass over it to go to another part of the forecast. So far, I have not been able to adjust the sensitivity to the point that I can cure this.
So accidental, highjack, phish or whatever, this is one of the most stupid ideas I have ever heard of.
My sig:
If we do not wish to lose our freedom, we must learn to tolerate our
neighbor’s right to freedom even though he might express that freedom
in a manner we consider to be eccentric.