The FBI is putting stress on electronic media companies (cellphone carriers and skype) to have their programmers code a backdoor into their system that would allow law-enforcement to perform wiretaps at their own discretion.
Let me get this straight… the government wants to force e-media companies to create backdoors in their security systems for the sole purpose of eavesdropping? WHOA. This is sounding awfully similar to an Orwell novel. Do we really need to make it easier for ‘big brother’ to invade our privacy? History has shown us repeatedly that power doth corrupt, and that almost every instrument of power eventually ends up in the bad-guy’s hands. If the code can be written to create security, then code can be written to break that security. Think of what an identity-thief could do with a direct line to your life… or worse yet--- a STALKER.
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