Last fall it came out that the feds were going to push for a law that would require wiretap backdoors in all forms of internet communications. As many people pointed out at the time, there are all sorts of reasons why this is a very bad idea, starting with the fact that putting such backdoors into all forms of communication will certainly lead to them being abused. And, when we say “abused,” we don’t just mean by the feds — who have a long history of illegally abusing surveillance powers — but by others as well. If the feds really think that only they will have true access to these backdoors, they’re a lot more naive than we thought. This is a catastrophe in waiting.
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It’s Back: FBI Announcing Desire To Wiretap The Internet | Techdirt
Yep.
