Posted on 07/25/2013 9:23:35 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.
If the government is able to determine a person's password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential correspondence or even impersonate the user. Obtaining it also would aid in deciphering encrypted devices in situations where passwords are reused.
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You read this and say “Nah, surely this is not true.” Then you think “The hell it ain’t!”
Not only is this unconstitutional, but you know the gov’t can’t keep anything secret so China and Russia would have the keys within days.
The Postal Service takes photos of the front of every piece of mail and stores them in a database, which is accessible to both local and federal law enforcement agencies.
A vehicle from that era doesn’t have a black box.....another plus for vintage cars.
Yet...
“Yeah, but they don’t read the contents. Yet.”
I wouldn’t put anything past this corrupt Administration.
That means online banking is a thing of the past, wonder if this is the end of the internet?, as far as i am concerned it will be.
Your reference to banking is related to my initial thought about the reach of this. Sounds like this move would put everyone’s bank accounts at the disposal of the government.
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Your reference to banking is related to my initial thought about the reach of this. Sounds like this move would put everyones bank accounts at the disposal of the government.
So many things over the years have happened just that way.
If you can find one.
VMs rock for many uses. encryption is one of them.
what was that in the Consitution again?
we appear to be living in a post modern.. post constitutional America
1. Set you up for a crime you did not do.
2.Empty your Bank Account
3.In short it is the ability to destroy you and imprison you.
George Orwell "1984" saw this coming. He warned us. We did not listen!
If im ever accused of such a crime I WNAT YOU as My Attorney!
Yes as a matter of fact it would provide the perfect excape “valve”
clearly the feds are not bright enough to have even considered this obstacle to thier vile plans.
Had enough?
If this complicit Congress allows the central socialist government to get away with this then the government needs to be turned upside down, shaken and the little weasels rounded up and assigned a large rock pile to break up.
American Conservatives are at war with this evil regime.
Don’t forget what Bozo said in a recent speech: If you distrust or dislike your government then we’ll have trouble.
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