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>The FBI and the Justice Department say the initiative would
> >not expand their power, but would ensure access to the type of
> >communications they have been entitled to tap for years.
>
>
> This is totally bogus.
>
> The FBI has never had the right to watch computer programs
> execute. Now that computer programs are being written as
> distributed systems, what was originally written to be an
> internal subroutine call can look like a message over the
> phone system.
>
> The FBI never had the right to bug corporate conference rooms.
> Now that companies are using videoconferencing, a private
> corporate conference could look like a phone call.
>
> Etc.
>
> This needs to be fought.
>
> - Carl
>
>
>
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