FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites
Some days I wish I could purchase a huge lighted sign, kilometers in length, and place it on the moon.<p>It'd say "The internet is not broken" I think I'd make it flash.<p>That's it. It's not perfect, security is a real threat and hassle to those on it, but it's not broken. It does not need fixing by the government.<p>I am very sorry that the FBI is unable to track communications on the net. Really I am. But this is no different than the problem they had before telephones were invented. In fact, throughout much of our nation's history, law enforcement had no idea what kind of communications criminals had. The universe did not explode. Somehow life went on.<p>I read last week that although most recent college grads are having problems finding work, there are exceptions. One of those are, sad to say, legal professionals seeking government work. The federal government is snatching up young lawyers and even paying off all their college bills in addition to their salary. In return we're creating an army of legal attack dogs in each agency looking for new ways to "fix" things for their paymasters.<p>Once again, it's not perfect. But it does not need fixing. What we're seeing now isn't the end of some long civil discussion about what rights everybody should have in a technological world. It's the beginning -- just the beginning -- of a new world where a lot of things we took for granted just a decade ago aren't going to be true any more.