FBI pushes for surveillance backdoors in Web 2.0 tools

Maybe instead of trying to get more power they should get their heads out of their respective asses and start doing their damn job: catch and prosecute criminals on behalf of the victims.

They have no reason to be in Washington at all.

Next thing they'll want the ability to track anyone's phone calls!

Oh wait.

All I can say is: leave our internet alone.

see link for full story http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fbi.internal.documents/... CNN exclusive: FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape

By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit January 27, 2011

Editor's note: Some content in this report may be offensive to readers. For more on this CNN exclusive story, watch Kyra Phillips' full report on "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight starting at 5 p.m. ET.

Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.

A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself."

And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.

These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years.

This is why I'm worried about companies like Greplin. For the FBI, it's 1 convenient place to go if they want all your communications.

This is boneheaded and will never happen. No startup will make "comprehensive government wiretap ability" one of their first product priorities.

If they are forced to then it'll result in companies moving to countries that don't have silly restrictions like this.

Scenario: Unbeknownst to the FBI, programmers at the companies they hired to write the backdoors and other programmers at companies they hire to audit the backdoor writers are members of Anonymous, who then conspire to put secret pet doors in the backdoors. In the meantime, /b/ has fun with memes involving 'backdoor' and even prime numbers.