warrantless wiretapping

[chaking]

Now that fornits is in Canada, and with the new law about allowing the gov't to tap into any communication that has a target outside of the U.S., it's possible the government can peek into anything happening on this site without a warrant.

I know most of the stuff here is public information, and the private messages and stuff probably isn't something the gov't is interested in, but it's just a thought.

[Froderik]

Don't kid yourself... Think of anything you do on the internet (unless it's super-highly encrypted) in much the same way you think of a postcard you send through the mail. That's about as much privacy you have with anything you do, including email.

[chaking]

That much is understood.  There are laws protecting information, though, that would have lent some semblance of protection to certain information in certain situations.  The new law bypasses all of that. The government can now do whatever they want.  It is a difference even if the information was never too secure to begin with.

[Antigen]

Well, that and we're dealing with people who have always been above the law. If they can kidnap, torture and even kill with cart blanche, why would they stop and silly old privacy laws?