DOJ to drop bomb on EFF vs. AT&T Options

[pebkac]

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/

The federal government intends to invoke the rarely used "State Secrets Privilege" -- the legal equivalent of a nuclear bomb -- in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class action lawsuit against AT&T that alleges the telecom collaborated with the government's secret spying on American citizens.

Wow. Dubya's covering his own and his partners' asses.

[JRockTTU]

this is techsans. you've got, on average, maybe a 35% chance of getting a logical argument out of someone when they know that they've already lost the argument.

(impala would be the prime example, but he's not the only one.)

Everybody on the internet thinks they are the smartest mother fucker alive and are never wrong. I swear, every post I read has nothing but ego behind it. And every person thinks that when they read a statement like that, it means everybody BUT them. We are all dumbasses and wrong more times than not.


And my point about the weed smoking/hacking/illegal downloading related to wiretaps is that it's ironic whenever you have people who openly disregard the law criticize the government for breaking the law. The government is a bunch of people, and they are human afterall, so they are going to have the same tendencies to stretch the legality of their actions. If you (not zetec, people in general) aren't willing to adhere to federal laws, then why should you expect that of your government officials?

And I see the whole 1984-like society that some of you think this will lead to, and I know that if you give an inch in liberties then the government will take a mile, but why would we want to handcuff our government's ability to catch potential mass murderers? I bet half of you wouldn't care if Bill Clinton was the one who did this.