If I am suspected of breaking a specific law, the police can get permission to spy on me - and sit outside my house taking pictures, etc. Is this an abridgement of my freedoms? I accept that as necessary.
For the FBI to actively use "Carnivore" they must demonstrate probable cause, they must state the telecommunications facility that communications will be intercepted from and they must identify the people that are suspected of the offense.
I have no problem with this system or any such system being used in this manner. I don't see it as any different than the police going into surveillance of my house.
Why aren't people afraid of wire-tapping anymore? Why hasn't anyone wire-tapped my house and arrested me for all the laws I've broken? They can? Why isn't it being massively abused? Why am I still free to break laws in the privacy of my own? (You know what I mean ;-) )
Last edited by Colin at Dec 16 2002, 12:52 PM
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