FBI wants access to browser history without a warrant in terrorism, spy cases

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Post by edgall » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 2:47 PM UTC

FBI wants access to browser history without a warrant in terrorism, spy cases
washingtonpost.com

Re: FBI wants access to browser history without a warrant in terrorism, spy cases

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Post by marze » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:04 PM UTC

You'd think terrorism/spy cases would be a small minority of overall cases. And not that hard to justify a warrant. Seems odd that they feel it is important to skip the warrant step for such cases.

Why not require a warrant? The more checks and balances the better.

Re: FBI wants access to browser history without a warrant in terrorism, spy cases

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Post by wickedlogic » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:06 PM UTC

marze wrote: post #2

You'd think terrorism/spy cases would be a small minority of overall cases. And not that hard to justify a warrant. Seems odd that they feel it is important to skip the warrant step for such cases. Why not require a warrant? The more checks and balances the better.

Because it isn't about terrorism/spy cases.

Re: FBI wants access to browser history without a warrant in terrorism, spy cases

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Post by techthroway443 » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:13 PM UTC

Wow whoever came up with the whole 'in the name of terrorism' is a goddamn genius. Pretty much a free card to get access to anything and everything for the sake of 'security'.

Re: FBI wants access to browser history without a warrant in terrorism, spy cases

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:16 PM UTC

Another reason to have an always-running VPN: they can't scrape what they can't see.

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Post by slyrus » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

And let's not forget whistleblowing, hacking, and piracy!

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Post by Karunamon » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

techthroway443 wrote: post #4

Wow whoever came up with the whole 'in the name of terrorism' is a goddamn genius. Pretty much a free card to get access to anything and everything for the sake of 'security'.

Indeed. Anytime you hear the words "children" or "national security" or "terrorism" being bandied about, you should crank up the sensitivity on your bullshit detector.

Re: FBI wants access to browser history without a warrant in terrorism, spy cases

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Post by pigpaws » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

techthroway443 wrote: post #4

Wow whoever came up with the whole 'in the name of terrorism' is a goddamn genius. Pretty much a free card to get access to anything and everything for the sake of 'security'.

yeah, it scares the people on the right, while "... for the children." is whats used to scare the left. How ANY of us made it to adulthood is amazing.

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Post by beamatronic » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:33 PM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #5

Another reason to have an always-running VPN: they can't scrape what they can't see.

Where does your VPN terminate? At some point you are trusting somebody and assuming they can't be co-opted.

Re: FBI wants access to browser history without a warrant in terrorism, spy cases

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Post by nitrogen » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

Call to Firefox devs: restore the option to keep history for a specified number of days. Why was this option ever removed? It originated all the way back in Netscape.

Also: make a prominent "clear last hour" option for mobile; I hate following a link from someone and finding a ton of tracking cookies have just been added.