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Topic: Petraeus case shows ease of
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Petraeus case shows ease of
government email snooping
Reuters, by Joseph Menn
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Posted By:Ken M., 11/17/2012 9:41:59 AM
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| San Francisco - The scandal surrounding the sudden resignation of an adulterous CIA director has stunned the American public not just for its prominent cast of characters, but also because of the ease with which authorities appeared to have traipsed through personal email accounts. Technology has transformed communications much faster than the law, giving U.S. authorities at all levels the power to routinely search reams of intimate emails, texts and instant messages, with much lower burdens of proof as far as the relevance to a criminal case.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 11/17/2012 10:03:49 AM (No. 9020397)
I think a president is more important and supposed to be trustworthy also, consider fdr, jfk, lbj, slick willy and bammykins. Can we please see all of their emails? That would be assuming that our current moron in the wh has ever used a computer. We need to know all things that he does and says - including reggie love.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/17/2012 10:09:43 AM (No. 9020408)
Guess lots of folks want to return to the days of Jamie Gorelick´s wall of separation.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
coldoc, 11/17/2012 10:38:07 AM (No. 9020469)
5 tears ago, we hired a house sitter who was, unbeknownst to us, a wanted felon. When the State department investigator contacted us for assistance and showed us what he had, we were quite surprised at the email access he had obtained. After that experience, I am sure every joke and disparaging remark about the obamanation goes onto a hard drive somewhere. Paranoid? Maybe. Maybe not.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JHHolliday, 11/17/2012 11:43:43 AM (No. 9020589)
Being a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and Sons of The American Revolution has probably put me on a watch list of some sort. I have also sent plenty of emails that were critical of our illustrious president. I expect a knock on the door any day now.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 11/17/2012 12:22:40 PM (No. 9020670)
They don´t look at Lucianne.com, do they?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
strike3, 11/17/2012 12:41:34 PM (No. 9020708)
Duh. NSA has been in that business longer than Robert Byrd was stealing our money for pet projects in West Virginia.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
franq, 11/17/2012 12:41:49 PM (No. 9020709)
If you don´t believe the Feds can monitor anything you say or do online, you are probably an Obamaphone user.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ecclesiastes, 11/17/2012 2:02:21 PM (No. 9020821)
We, IT people, have been trying to tell people this for decades. The way mail was set up, and is set up, on the internet, you are sending e-postcards, not "mail in an envelope". Your only protection is to send everything, EVERYTHING, encrypted - and that everyone else does too.
BTW, your cell phone is bugged.
Actually, since all cell phone traffic is broadcast, they don´t need a bug or a court order. It´s not even spying - no more than you "spy" on a radio station to hear the news.
At this level, they aren´t snooping.
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