29 September 2010 - wiretap the net

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Federal law enforcement intends to propose broad new powers to wiretap the internet, revealed the New York Times on Monday. “We’re not asking for any new authority,” explained FBI spokesgod Zeus Rustock. “We’ve always had the power to compel companies to spend billions to compromise their own security architectures and enable cyberwar on a scale never before seen. All that’s changed is that we’ve seen Stuxnet and we thought we’d like to try too. Besides, everybody’s doing it.”

clue:

I think the biggest objection to the plan is not that it compromises privacy, but that it compromises security, which it is supposedly intended to improve.

Zeus and Rustock are the names of major criminal botnets.

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