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US Governent wants to inspect internet traffic as PART OF ECONOMIC STIUMLUS, Chineese communist goverment style

I hope the internet police like watching hours upon hours of midget scat pr0n if they plan on watching my interwebz
 
Thomas Jefferson said, every 200 years you will need a revolution. The time for one getting darn close to happening if they keep doing stuff like this.
 
Originally posted by: Googer
Thomas Jefferson said, every 200 years you will need a revolution. The time for one getting darn close to happening if they keep doing stuff like this.
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Take away your money, no problems. Take away your liberties, no problems. Take away your rights, no problems.

Do not touch your prons though, there's hell to pay.
 
Originally posted by: Googer
Hollywood trying to sneak packet inspection into stimulus bill
by Lee Mathews Feb 11th 2009

Damn Democrats.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2...on-into-stimulus-bill/
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Yeah, I was okay with Bush suspending habeas corpus; but them damn democrats are takin' away my pron!

(Disclaimer - I am not agreeing with monitoring all internet activity to prevent a specific type of crime limited to a small, freakish basement-dwelling subculture. I am simply pointing out the irony of both parties pointing at the other and blaming them for the end of freedom and democracy)
 
I already assume everything I do online is being watched a-la NSA style.

Phone as well.

Oddly enough, I think VOIP technology like skype would be the hardest thing for them to eavesdrop.
 
Well, if you don't encrypt your sensitive data now is a good time to start. Regular web browsing will be difficult to secure though.
 
more fail
http://news.slashdot.org/artic...02/11/1454246&from=rss
""According to the Register, Senator Diane Feinstein is attempting to put language into the stimulus bill that would kill net neutrality. The amendment that her provision was attached to was withdrawn, but lobbyists tell Public Knowledge that Feinstein hopes to put it back into the bill during the closed-door conference committee that reconciles the House and Senate versions."
Bad Senator! No Cookie!"

 
It'd probably happen because people will just vent on ATOT instead of writing their legislators. Remember, the lobbyists have the money on capitol hill, we don't.

Ironically, some of the lobbyists have our money and are using it to restrict our freedoms and rights.
 
My prediction:

Some time in the next 5-10 years we will see a large number of completely private Intranets spring up which will be immune to any sort of government regulation. Sites like AnandTech and Wikipedia will migrate to these new private networks.

These completely private networks will be subscription based just like current Internet access. You will still need Internet access though and will then connect to the private Intranet via a secure/encrypted VPN connection.
 
Originally posted by: LS8
My prediction:

Some time in the next 5-10 years we will see a large number of completely private Intranets spring up which will be immune to any sort of government regulation. Sites like AnandTech and Wikipedia will migrate to these new private networks.

These completely private networks will be subscription based just like current Internet access. You will still need Internet access though and will then connect to the private Intranet via a secure/encrypted VPN connection.
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Interesting theory, but unless these 'private' internets utilize entirely their own lines, you'll still be subject to the network management schemes of the big telcos. Likely, they'll consider your encrypted VPN packets low priority.

Plus, important sites aren't going to be available on every private internet. I can't see some of the smaller sites, owned and managed by a handful of people, paying subscription costs to multiple private networks.
 
Originally posted by: OverVolt
I already assume everything I do online is being watched a-la NSA style.

Phone as well.

Oddly enough, I think VOIP technology like skype would be the hardest thing for them to eavesdrop.
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My thoughts as well; I think Skype even uses encryption.

 
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: LS8
My prediction:

Some time in the next 5-10 years we will see a large number of completely private Intranets spring up which will be immune to any sort of government regulation. Sites like AnandTech and Wikipedia will migrate to these new private networks.

These completely private networks will be subscription based just like current Internet access. You will still need Internet access though and will then connect to the private Intranet via a secure/encrypted VPN connection.
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Interesting theory, but unless these 'private' internets utilize entirely their own lines, you'll still be subject to the network management schemes of the big telcos. Likely, they'll consider your encrypted VPN packets low priority.

Plus, important sites aren't going to be available on every private internet. I can't see some of the smaller sites, owned and managed by a handful of people, paying subscription costs to multiple private networks.
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Plenty of companies run private Intranets now with huge numbers of users and those Intranets are completely unregulated (besides the companies own rules) because they are indeed private. I'm just thinking it won't be long until someone starts offering subscriptions to these Intranets. I think the big web sites will be ready and willing to replicate their content over to the private Intranets.

I think there would be scores of people ready to signup as well, removing themselves from "public auditing" on the Internet.

Edit: But as I was saying, I think this is 5-10 years away. Right now the Internet is still pretty wide open but as it becomes more and more regulated and monitored (and we know it will be) I think these new, private networks will take off. Right now I admit there isn't a huge draw but I think in 5-10 years there will be.
 
Originally posted by: LS8
My prediction:

Some time in the next 5-10 years we will see a large number of completely private Intranets spring up which will be immune to any sort of government regulation. Sites like AnandTech and Wikipedia will migrate to these new private networks.
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80% of internet users can barely type. Give me a break.
 
Originally posted by: Colt45
Originally posted by: LS8
My prediction:

Some time in the next 5-10 years we will see a large number of completely private Intranets spring up which will be immune to any sort of government regulation. Sites like AnandTech and Wikipedia will migrate to these new private networks.
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80% of internets users can barely type. Give me a break, give me a kitkat.
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fixed.

 
Where have you been? It's been known for a while now that this is not an economic stimulus bill as much as it is a giant porkfest and gov't powergrab.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Where have you been? It's been known for a while now that this is not an economic stimulus bill as much as it is a giant porkfest and gov't powergrab.
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Indeed it is. What a pile of bullshit.
 
I doubt they will be successful. Nobody wants to give away their internet privacy in the name of protecting those poor rich actors and their lawyers from a penny or two in revenue.

But then it is Feinstein and she is under the thumb of those that would suspend our right to privacy for a quick buck, so you never know. :|

 
Originally posted by: SSSnail
Originally posted by: Googer
Thomas Jefferson said, every 200 years you will need a revolution. The time for one getting darn close to happening if they keep doing stuff like this.
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Take away your money, no problems. Take away your liberties, no problems. Take away your rights, no problems.

Do not touch your prons though, there's hell to pay.
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I'll get my gun. Nobody touches my midget-golden stream fun!
 
I thought this was what most people wanted? The whole point of government is to govern. So now government is going to be bigger than ever, it's going to exercise control over almost aspect of our lives, obviously that control requires them to know what we're doing. Get used to it, it's for your own good.
 
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