Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants

[Genx87]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-5...ithout-warrants/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans' e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files.

You cant make the above up. A bill that was originally designed to safeguard our privacy rights is turned into a law that destroys it.

Is there any doubt both sides of the aisle cant wait to crush us under big centralized govt?

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[dank69]

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[Kadarin]

Email is sent over clear text, so you should always assume that anyone can read it anyway. If you're concerned about it, encrypt it.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Email is sent over clear text, so you should always assume that anyone can read it anyway. If you're concerned about it, encrypt it.

What a stupid mentality. So, since it's unencrypted it's automatically ok for LEOs to have free reign? Ugh. Disgusting.

 

[momeNt]

Email is sent over clear text, so you should always assume that anyone can read it anyway. If you're concerned about it, encrypt it.

Windows are also generally clear. Yet an authority that has the power of taxation generally isn't allowed to designate people to peer into your windows with binoculars and document what you do inside your home.

If one is concerned about this possibility, purchase drapes?

That's a stupid mentality to have. But you know this and are just being trollish lately.

 

[Matt1970]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2284433

 

[xj0hnx]

What a stupid mentality. So, since it's unencrypted it's automatically ok for LEOs to have free reign? Ugh. Disgusting.

No, and I agree with you that it is bad, but a lock on a door only stops a thief of opportunity. I learned a long time ago that if you put something on the internet, whether it is supposed to be private or not if you don't want someone else to be able to see it, encrypt it. If you're really worried about it use Tormail and PGP, or GPG.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

No, and I agree with you that it is bad, but a lock on a door only stops a thief of opportunity. I learned a long time ago that if you put something on the internet, whether it is supposed to be private or not if you don't want someone else to be able to see it, encrypt it. If you're really worried about it use Tormail and PGP, or GPG.

This isn't about a thief or random passerby or whatever. This is the government, who is (or should be, anyway) held to a higher standard.

 

[OutHouse]

Email is sent over clear text, so you should always assume that anyone can read it anyway. If you're concerned about it, encrypt it.

my snail mail is in clear text.

 

[Ausm]

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[Atreus21]

my snail mail is in clear text.

Encrypt that shit, man!

 

[piasabird]

The bill would also allow the government agencies to also read all your posts on any website. Although, I doubt reading these posts would provide them with any intelligence.

 

[xj0hnx]

This isn't about a thief or random passerby or whatever. This is the government, who is (or should be, anyway) held to a higher standard.

True, they should be. but look at the people they govern, it's not any surprise they aren't.