FBI pressuring Google, Facebook to allow ‘back doors’ for wiretapping

[truthseekerdan]

ACLU: Proposed expansion of wiretap powers 'a clear recipe for abuse'

FBI Director Robert Mueller traveled to Silicon Valley this week to convince major Internet players to build "back doors" into their software that will allow law enforcement to wiretap data on their networks, says a news report.

It's part of an effort to expand the FBI's wiretapping powers to include the latest communications technologies, including social networking sites, voice-over-Internet (VoIP) telephone services and BlackBerries.

But privacy and civil rights advocates are raising the alarm about the proposal, saying that the proposed wiretapping tools could just as easily be used by hackers to steal personal information, or by oppressive governments to track political dissidents.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/fbi-pressuring-google-facebook-wiretapping/

[Ahkenaten]

The government should not be disturbed - it already has the power and ability to enter backdoors thanks to the major computer software platform manufacturers and the visit more than likely is to drum up the appearance of support from industry for the never-ending war on terror. Promis software opened backdoors into many systems including banking systems and even governmental agency systems thanks to Buzzy Krongrad. The problem is, I repeat - the govt. and 3-letter agencies already has more than enough data on everyone and everything. And, thanks to the constant successful ministrations of the salespersons who recently entered the corporate world through the revolving door of government agencies, the purchase of even more invasive technologies and systems are presently in the wings, which will flood even more information into the system. You could make 100 promotional goldfringed flag waving visits to Silicon Valley and Seattle Washington and unless the government hired about 100,000 live human beings to do live human analysis on this mass of information (humit) you still would not have anything in the way of actionable intelligence.

[Fredkc]

FBI Director Robert Mueller traveled to Silicon Valley this week to convince major Internet players to build "back doors" into their software that will allow law enforcement to wiretap data on their networks, says a news report.
They'll just do it on the QT, just like the Bushies did. And when their illegal acts are discovered Congress will once again simply pass yet another ILLEGAL ex-post facto law giving the criminals involved immunity.

And if you think for one second, "Not with our saviour, Obama in office!", think again. It was the Democrats who wrote the last ILLEGAL ex-post facto law.
Obama promised he would even filibuster to prevent it. And then...
Not only voted to quash any filibuster, but voted FOR the bill!

Summation: "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss."
Fred

[Ahkenaten]

right on Fred it is a monolithic one-party system - they are all working for the same folks and it is NOT the people