The US government goons want to expand to expand CALEA so that they can monitor everything anybody ever says or does. Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, took issue with the move. “This proposal is a drastic anti-privacy, anti-security, anti-innovation solution in search of a problem,” he said.
He noted that in an official 2009 review of 2,400 federal, state and local law enforcement applications for wiretap orders, “encryption was encountered during one state wiretap, but did not prevent officials from obtaining the plain text of the communications.”
Hypothetical this and hypothetical that bullshit. Let’s hypothetical that the cops start using this to monitor their girlfriends for when they are labia licking their lesbian friends. Or that if the cops can look at anything then what keeps any one else from hacking in and doing so?
This type of government big brother crap only makes us weaker.
Susan Landau, a Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study fellow and former Sun Microsystems engineer, said the proposal would make it easier for nation-state adversaries to hack into U.S. networks.
“It simplifies the process for them,” she said. “The more secure you make a communication system the harder you make it for everyone to break in.”