So send 'em your life's story without flinching? (Score 1)

Do we really want to call it our patriotic duty to send all our minutiae past the government's eyes? Do they really have the right to scrutinize any abritrary amount of my sad little life just because I use the same ISP as my drug-dealing neighbor? I just roll over and say "Ok guys, as long as you say it's for national security..."

I'm not sure I object to listening in on a suspected criminal's email. But the Carnivore system is the equivalent of tapping all the phones in a city block and listening to all of them just to hear the few conversations that a suspected criminal makes. Why is it that I'm just supposed to give them my whole personal and/or life details when both they and I know they have no business with those details?

They no longer assure me that I'm not being investigated when I'm not under investigation. They changed the rules big time.

I say encrypt: with antivore and Carnivore-be-damned.