U.S. Bill Will Allow Feds to Read Your E-mail Without Warrants

[timw03878]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUrX9t9v3rY

 

[gm0n3y]

I don't understand why we deem snail mail to need a search warrant, but the electronic version does not. I personally think that law enforcement should require a warrant for any level of snooping. If there is legitimate reason to suspect someone then getting a warrant isn't a problem. If they can't get a warrant then they shouldn't be snooping anyway.

 

[timw03878]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]I don't understand why we deem snail mail to need a search warrant, but the electronic version does not. I personally think that law enforcement should require a warrant for any level of snooping. If there is legitimate reason to suspect someone then getting a warrant isn't a problem. If they can't get a warrant then they shouldn't be snooping anyway.[/citation]


The Patriot Act allows the Feds to write their own search warrants.
We already destroyed the 4th amendment.

King George gave his soldiers the ability to do the same thing to enforce the stamp act of 1765 which brought about the Boston Tea Party and the Revolutionary War.

Most people are not aware that we are heading towards revolution with every passing day.

 

[spentshells]

[citation][nom]rantoc[/nom]Things like this will only make everyone encrypt their personal emails ect and when 99% of everything is decrypted where are the "bad" messages in that mass? Wouldn't it simply be more productive to leave it as is and have a way easier time to find the encrypted messages that are likely to contain the bad stuff?Politicians of today - Vote for things they know nothing about....[/citation]

Or step off the grid... what then

 

[pjmelect]

Hotmail does not allow encrypted attachments to emails, it refuses to upload them. What other email providers allow you to upload and download encrypted attachments?

 

[BreadWhistle]

Good lord, what the hell happened to democracy? Instead of us people who actually use email voting on it, we have power crazy idiots deciding our own fate... SMH, looks like im moving to Canada.

 

[Guest]

"Most people are not aware that we are heading towards revolution with every passing day."

Unfortunately after a revolution you never no what government your actually going to end up with.

 

[Darkk]

Time to put PGP mail to use.

 

[jehanne]

Encrypt AND use the following:

http://quicksilvermail.net/

As for the "encrypt part," 3072-bit keys are an "absolute must":

http://www.gpg4win.org/

Note that the biggest RSA key cracked to date only had 768-bits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers#RSA-768

Finally, add TrueCrypt, Tor, Tails (works great using Oracle VirtualBox), and Technitium to your privacy toolkit:

http://www.truecrypt.org/
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
https://tails.boum.org/
http://www.technitium.com/tmac/index.html

CCleaner and Eraser should "round out" your list:

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
https://tails.boum.org/

 

[jehanne]

Oops...that last link should be:

http://download.cnet.com/Eraser/3000-2092_4-10231814.html

 

[invlem]

1 reason not to count out blackberry just yet!

More 1st world governments pull this crap, RIM might see a comeback.

 

[BeatMason]

Can't they already do that?

 

[cookoy]

So does this snooping power apply only to american citizens only or just about anybody with a facebook, twitter, google docs, and whatever the bill encompasses? It's like cutting open the whole person's body just in case the doctors may want to find what's causing his stomach ache. No more expensive lab tests, xrays, mri, ctscans... just open him up.

 

[Auroram]

And you Americans dare call your country a land of freedom? Speak up about these things or you will simply be ridiculed by the whole world. Well, until the US government tries / succeeds to enforce that stuff everywhere and we're all screwed. They have a tendancy to think their laws should apply on a global scale.

 

[lysinger]

It's about time the ACLU took a stand on something of substance.

 

[Rhinofart]

[citation][nom]soldier2013[/nom]Good luck with that, some of us encrypt our stuff with so many VPNs and by other means its not worth their time to look at my stuff. Smarter than any government fresh out of college kid snooping around. Get real![/citation]

LOL Government already has back doors. Your email encryption, and VPNs will only keep out the inept.

 

[_Cosmin_]

Soon they will try to enforce it to the whole world... as they did with ACTA/PIPA/SOPA/etc.
Idiots still think that terrorists use plain text messages/e-mails... when are so many FREE software for criptographic/stenographic purposes...they failed misserably with TPM chips and now try again - a little different.

 

[11796pcs]

[citation][nom]Dangi[/nom]1986 and Big Brother are closer than you think for you americans, and for the rest of us is also coming[/citation]
Come on, get the year right, it's 1984 not 1986. I have to add that this article makes me even more ashamed to be an American.

 

[3ogdy]

Check it out - we may be safe and sound...for now:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/121129/us-senate-committee-approves-email-privacy-bill