http://www.tomsguide.com/us/FBI-Backdoor-CALEA-Facebook-Obama,news-15090.html#BOM_comments

The REAL PROBLEM IS THIS :
"In addition to the FBI's move, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering reinterpreting CALEA so that products ranging from Skype to Google Hangouts will include backdoors to help solve the "Going Dark" problem."

bureaucratic agencies, run by political appointees, are CHANGING the laws at their own whim!

What's the FBU?

well, crap.. no way to edit title FBI &*(&*(&#*&%**W@Q^^#%#%

Sounds like that clothing brand.

Formidable Big Underwear?

French Baguette Unicycles?

Fantasizing (of) Belligerent Unitards

Finding Beurocracy Useless.

OK all, mod fixed title, now how about some serious posts? (although S.K.'s is the best and most appropriate here so far)

Isn't Google privately owned, being all about keeping gathered information in-house? Wouldn't it be a security risk to them, to have someone else poke inside there?

The thing about this is, any terrorists / bad guys / term of the day or whatever who aren't A) encrypting their stuff or not using social networks aren't going to get caught by an backdoor wiretaps anyway. Plus, just use something like http://www.speakfreely.org/ (or others) and there's little that can be done. It may be possible to decrypt the encryption (AES 256 could theoretically be broken... but it would take a long, long while) but it won't do much good years after the fact.

But a very small (very very small) percentage of people even use encryption, so most data will be easily read by FBI, etc.

Well, my larger point was that these backdoors and such won't make anyone much safer. And it opens up huge privacy issues, etc. Politics, mostly.

HUGE privacy issues, but I also have a big problem with bureaucrats changing laws - we have congress for that

The worrying thing about this sort of development isn't so much investigating existing crimes but data-mining, trying to find evidence of so far unknown crimes, which seems to be really quite hazardous in terms of drawing the wrong conclusion. Anything that supports that level of unjustified snooping should be opposed IMHO.

The "FBI" wants a backdoor to Facebook...

Or should I say..

ILLUMINATI

Ehh? You want in on my Facebook? How about this FBI? Rather than focus on the "Big Bad" internet people, you... I don't know... DO YOUR [censored] JOB?!

How many criminals do we have running around at this very moment in our own damn country? How many cases of coporate corruption (any kind of corruption for that matter) that is having a terrible impact on the country as a whole should we be looking into? AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL.

WHERE THE HELL IS MATT DAMON?! He can be plotting to overthrow this agency as we speak!

He's a good actor. I used to think he was just some kind of [censored], but he was really good in The Departed. And Green Zone too!
The reptilian Anunnaki is coming!

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On a serious note, I feel that my privacy is already breached enough as it is, and now some American [censored]-bureau wanna [censored] [censored] up more? It seems more and more reasonable to just stop using the internet...