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Old 05-31-2013, 04:42 AM
 
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The Government Wants A Backdoor Into Your Online Communications
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The new proposal reportedly allows the FBI to listen in on any conversation online, regardless of the technology used, by mandating engineers build "backdoors" into communications software. We urge EFF supporters to tell the administration now to stop this proposal, provisionally called CALEA II.
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Old 05-31-2013, 05:57 AM
 
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Google Releases Transparency Report Showing US Surveillance Requests Up 33% in the Last Year
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Google received over 21,000 requests for data on over 33,000 users in the last six months from governments around the world, a 70% increase since Google started releasing numbers in 2010. The United States accounted for almost 40% the total requests

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Old 05-31-2013, 06:00 AM
 
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Obama has indicated that he may support these new FBI powers: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us...anted=all&_r=0
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Old 05-31-2013, 06:04 AM
 
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Obama has indicated that he may support these new FBI powers: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us...anted=all&_r=0
Yeah that article is also citing the NY times article.
From same article I linked above.
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In one notorious example, someone exploited backdoors in a Greek phone company's systems and recorded sensitive conversations involving the Prime Minister. Wiretapping backdoors even affect national security. In 2012, Wired revealed the NSA's discovery and concern that every telephone switch for sale to the Department of Defense had security vulnerabilities due to the legally-mandated wiretap implementation
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Old 05-31-2013, 05:37 PM
 
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This looks like it will be expensive to upgrade equipment for this. Guess who will be paying for it?
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Old 06-01-2013, 11:44 AM
 
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Isn’t it about time that we as United States citizens demand that the Patriot Act be repealed? It’s becoming impossible to reconcile the First and Fourth Amendments with it still in place. All of the protections to The US Constitution that we gained through the US Senate’s Church Committee back in the 1970’s have been dissolved by this ridiculous war on terror and it’s time to decide if we actually respect the rule of law and are willing to demand our rights be given back.
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