I heard on NPR the FBI etc want to be able to monitor internet communications

[SPKrazy]

Will they monitor our lounge posts?

Hi agent Mike!

[struggle4progress]

1. Kudzu won't be going anywhere without a government-issued photo ID!

[SPKrazy]

2. so true

Kudzu is finally contained by the government!

:P

[MilesColtrane]

3. I have a feeling they're already on it.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. "Booger!!!!!" -Dr. Johnny Fever

[ThomCat]

5. They don't already? What stops them?

You know damned well that they've got their own dedicated backbone feed into AT&T. A whistle-blower revealed that years ago. So if they already troll all internet traffic that comes through AT&T's regional servers, it's a done deal right there.

If they get any of the other big ISPs to comply too, then they've got duplicate access.

Keep in mind that your internet use/command/traffic takes a very indirect route, so it may cross the country, and even leave the country every time you view something, upload something, download something, or do something.

Even if they are secretly have access to look at internet traffic only if it goes outside the US, that's no restriction at all. All they have to do is deliberately route ALL internet traffic so that it momentarily hits a router outside of the US and comes back again before going to it's destination or before going back to your computer, and that gives them the ability to look at everything.

I would not assume, in this day and age, that the government isn't seeing anything.

[pokerfan]

6. Can I say 'bomb' in here?

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb. You gonna arrest me? Bomb bomb bomb bomb! During the war I was a BOMBadier!

[Bake]

7. I like pie.

:-)

Bake

[liberaltrucker]

8. I'm gonna bomb my house

Any suggestions as to which insecticide
I should use? I have ants, spiders and
waterbugs. But no roaches. Already smoked those.

:smoke:

[Orrex]

9. This probably isn't a good time to mention that I gave the atomic secret to the Rosenbergs