FBI to gain expanded hacking powers as Senate effort to block fails

[mirimir at riseup.net (Mirimir)]

On 12/04/2016 04:19 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/04/2016 01:27 PM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
>> On Dec 4, 2016 3:03 PM, "rooty" <arpspoof at protonmail.com 
>> <mailto:arpspoof at protonmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> This is a good thing - war on terror here we come
> 
>> No, boy, it is _not_ a good thing.  The governments and its
>> institutions and agencies are the real terror and they will use 'a
>> greater good'  -- terrorism, paedophilia, spying, whatever --  as
>> excuse to disrespect people's privacy and violate civil rights,
>> creating new laws for justify their vile actions, if necessary.  Or
>> simply ignoring the already existent legislation and all the
>> international agreements.
> 
> I don't think the FBI will gain expanded powers of surveillance;
> rather, they will gain the ability to use information they already
> routinely gather by illegal means openly, in Court filings.  Where
> previously they had to work around the law by using illegal methods to
> locate information that is admissible in Court ("parallel
> construction"), they will be able to take a much more direct approach.
> 
> :o/

Yes, that's reality. FBI leeches data and skills from NSA. And NSA does
whatever it wants to. US is always at war. And there are no laws in war.