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I do agree for the most part with you that media should not dictate privacy (i.e. I should expect no MORE privacy on a phone conversation than an Email, but I will adamantly resist less.

There is a "Ginormous" gorge between retaining a phone record stating 'a call was made from your house to this number' and having every phone conversation I've ever had stored in some vault.
The digital equivalent would be storing logs stating a transaction occurred between some site and my IP address, or that a PC in my house accessed Google X times on X date. (Which with P2P / Tor etc.) proves your guilt or affiliation no more or less than a the phone record without additional proof that YOU made the call as opposed to someone made a call using your phone.

There is a similar gulf between getting a warrant to check my [snail] mailbox and having every chat / email I send or receive saved. If they did that to mail, then every piece of mail ever sent would have to be opened, read and copied before being delivered to you. (Although I suppose this would have solved that Anthrax letter thing).
I guarantee I'd have Fed's monitoring my PC as I browse the same sites malicious hackers do (Security Admins use 80% of the same tools the bad guys do), I've stated many unpopular opinions that they could construe as 'Un-American' (how quickly a disagreement on a particular 'Bush Policy' can be interpreted as treason with the right interpreter and an unabridged dictionary) and I search out alternate news media when I see something on CNN that seems just a bit one-sided.
The lesson I've learned from history is that people with all the power tend to use it All the time.

As for the 'War on Terror' aspect, maybe its just me, but I can't possibly see some group or person smart enough not to say 'OK, so I'll send you the money for the Bomb we're planting on flight 666 scheduled for next Tuesday' on the phone sending it in email / chat when they know the ISP is REQUIRED to record it and the FBI can run Google Desktop against hotmail's archive. I could be wrong, but those who aren't that smart will probably blow themselves up long before they hit customs.
75% of Phishing can be solved with technologies such as Yahoo!'s Domain Keys / Bonded Sender or similar concepts. The better part of the remaining 25% can be fixed with education.

I'm most certainly for things that will thwart child molesters, but if anyone breaks the sanctity of privacy, I think it should be 'Mom' breaching the privacy of her son / daughters email / myspace etc. Not Big Brother. Not Uncle Sam.

My 3 cents (if everyone had 2 cents it would be far too much like communism

Posted by: Adarro   Posted on: 01/25/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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