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The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users' private Web communications from eavesdropping.
These demands for master encryption keys, which have not been disclosed previously, represent a technological escalation in the clandestine methods that the FBI and the National Security Agency employ when conducting electronic surveillance against Internet users.
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Time to route everything through the secure servers at Sealand. Screw 'em.
A water park sounds like a terrible place for a server farm.
Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys | Politics and Law - CNET News
There could be a good reason for having them, but I would feel safer if you didn't.
Say it forget it. Write it regret it.
I think we're just going to have to accept the fact that we have no privacy on the internet. Personally? I never assumed we did.
As true today as it's always been.
We had internet privacy until the wiretapping laws. The government used people's fear of terrorism to start databasing the general public, and everyone just rolled over like a dog and said yes sir because they wanted to fight those darned terrorists.
For the record, the government has had the technology to wiretap every phone in America since the Soviet era, but they used that technology to monitor foreign communications. Our own laws protected us from such invasions. Now those laws are gone, so tyranny is growing right on our own soil.
Don't try so hard to excuse it as, "oh well the internet was never private". What about online banking? Conversations with your relatives on Skype? Cell phone conversations? Do we not have a reasonable expectation that our communications won't be monitored by the government, under the 4th Amendment?
People never learned from the McCarthy era. There was a time when the government violating the 4th would cause a revolt... now people just flip the channel.
I think we're just going to have to accept the fact that we have no privacy on the internet. Personally? I never assumed we did.
As true today as it's always been.
Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys | Politics and Law - CNET News
There could be a good reason for having them, but I would feel safer if you didn't.
Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys | Politics and Law - CNET News
There could be a good reason for having them, but I would feel safer if you didn't.
Damn, it's the 1990s all over again. Which will they blame web companies for harboring first, child pornographers or terrorists?
Flavor of the month is terrorists...
Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys | Politics and Law - CNET News
The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users' private Web communications from eavesdropping.
These demands for master encryption keys, which have not been disclosed previously, represent a technological escalation in the clandestine methods that the FBI and the National Security Agency employ when conducting electronic surveillance against Internet users.
Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the term "Big Brother" has entered the lexicon as a synonym for abuse of government power, particularly in respect to civil liberties, often specifically related to mass surveillance.
Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys | Politics and Law - CNET News
There could be a good reason for having them, but I would feel safer if you didn't.
For those who don't know - Sealand. They don't report their user activities to any country and do not honor foreign (which is everywhere else) warrants.
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