[Errant]

No Comment... I'd be banned for life if I said what I'm thinking about our so-called "representatives" in "FREAKING" Washington DC who are letting this CRAP happen...

[yldstrk]

I will say it: folk off

[svcw]

Oh hell NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DannyTN]

So they can pull child porn down into anybody’s account and then prosecute them. Proving the government did it, would be next to impossible.

Of course, if they wanted to do that, it would probably be hard to stop them password or not.

[svcw]

Any company I do business with turns my pass word over to the FEDS will lose my business.........FOREVER!

[Ben Mugged]

Go to biometrics on the local host. Nothing stored on the remote server.

[NonValueAdded]

But a [Google] spokesperson said the company has "never" turned over a user's encrypted password.

So they decrypt it first?

[taxcontrol]

Idiots,

Passwords are not stored in a modern system. A one way cryptographic hash is stored instead. In reality, passwords are not checked directly. They are run through a complex hashing program that CAN NOT BE REVERSED and the output of the hash is stored.

To verify a password, the submitted password is put through the same hash and the output is compared to the stored hash. If they match then the proper password has been submitted.

[SatinDoll]

Ping.

[Flick Lives]

This proves the Feds are even stupider than I thought. Any good system does not store passwords, it stores a hash of the password. You can give the hashed value to anyone and it does not give them access. When you enter your password, that value is encrypted and then compared to the hash value.

[null and void]

Hmmmm, with your password, a government agent could use your account to establish a search history of any sort they may so desire.

In court they could make you look like any sort of monster that fits a narrative.

[Pollster1]

If the evil thug in our White House and his supporters want to do this lawfully, they need individual warrants, based “upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”.

Instead, the general strategy for these data and just about everything else has been to collect everything on everyone and sort through our lives at leisure. The far left very obviously don’t care about freedom, the law, or the Constitution, so it comes down to just how brutal their forces are willing to get and just how firm decent people are willing to be in resisting tyranny.

[TurboZamboni]

[Standing Wolf]

Considering the feral government’s attitude toward our privacy, I wonder why it’s so concerned about its privacy. Is it trying to hide things?

[MeganC]

More and more it looks like time to water the tree of liberty.

[usconservative]

Given the revelations about the NSA and the Government's incursions into our privacy on a daily basis - it is rapidly becoming time for all right-thinking American's who are concerned about their privacy, their freedom of expression, freedom of speech, and freedom from unrestrained search and seizure (which is NOT limited to physical property!) to start planning on removing their Facebook, Google, and Webmail based accounts from the internet.

In short: The Federal Government is using your internet access to spy on you, collect information about you and PROFILE you. Develop your exit plan now - that means deleting accounts, deleting Facebook history, etc.. and learning to use the internet ANONYMOUSLY.

TOR. Accessing the Internet using public WiFi Access on an untraceable device. The capabilities are there, google is your friend.

[usconservative]

No Comment... I'd be banned for life if I said what I'm thinking about our so-called "representatives" in "FREAKING" Washington DC who are letting this CRAP happen.

If I said what I was thinking at this very moment (oh hell ... what I'm thinking most of the time!) the least of my worries would be being banned from FR.

[upchuck]

This is another reason the cloud should not be used for personal storage.

It’s your data. Don’t you want to control it?

[upchuck]

The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies...

This brings to mind two questions:

1. What part of "the U.S. Government?"

2. Which, specifically, "major Internet companies?"

Vague reporting like that drives me crazy.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m going to have to go through and change my passwords for every account in the next few days.

They’re not the same right now, but this is getting so ridiculous, that I’m going to be changing all my passwords on a regular basis.

This is so annoying!

[Windflier]