{"id":311,"date":"2004-03-21T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/unchecked-police-power\/"},"modified":"2004-03-21T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T20:32:51","slug":"unchecked-police-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/unchecked-police-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchecked \r\n\r\nPolice Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Brother Is Watching<\/a> By Lance Ulanoff, PCMag.com<\/p>\n

A recent Associated Press article about the FBI raiding an Ohio-based chat host company’s offices and confiscating its servers sent <\/p>\n

a chill up my spine. The FBI acted on information that someone may have used the service for hacking. It was within its jurisdiction, <\/p>\n

obtaining a warrant for the search and seizure. But it’s what they could do with those servers and the information stored on them that <\/p>\n

really has me spooked. …<\/p>\n

Who gets to draw the line about what the FBI can see? A warrant to confiscate a server is like giving <\/p>\n

the FBI a warrant to search every house in the state of Maine.<\/b> The level and kinds of information that could be on the servers is <\/p>\n

certainly as varied as what you could find in a few thousand homes<\/b>. …<\/p>\n

Right now, I’m envisioning a series of frightening <\/p>\n

home raids where the FBI confiscates personal computers from anyone<\/b> they think may have been involved.<\/p>\n

This new Big Brother-ish <\/p>\n

environment is fueled, to some extent, by the Patriot Act, which is giving federal authorities far more latitude in their pursuit of <\/p>\n

cybercriminals. I have no love for jerks that create viruses and attack or take over other people’s PCs, but I worry that the Feds <\/p>\n

now have more power than they know what to do with<\/b>. I believe this is primarily because they don’t understand just how twisted the <\/p>\n

thread of cyberterrorism can become and how hard it can be to trace an attack to its correct origin.<\/p>\n

All of law <\/p>\n

enforcement has such expanded powers these days. This article is one of many showing just how real the threat to us all is. It is sad <\/p>\n

that the author’s conclusion is not that we need to re-assert the Bill of Rights<\/b> and curtail unrestricted policing; instead, he <\/p>\n

says stay away from certain Internet resources because you may get implicated in spite of your innocence. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FBI Removes Servers From <\/p>\n

Chat Room Company<\/a>
\nFebruary 24, 2004 <\/p>\n

POWELL, Ohio (AP) — Federal agents conducting an Internet crime investigation confiscated <\/p>\n

computer equipment and data files from a company that hosts private Internet chat rooms, an FBI spokesman said Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Brother Is Watching By Lance Ulanoff, PCMag.com A recent Associated Press article about the FBI raiding an Ohio-based chat host company’s offices and confiscating its servers sent a chill up my spine. The FBI acted on information that someone may have used the service for hacking. It was within its jurisdiction, obtaining a warrant … Continue reading Unchecked <\/p>\n

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