Great article today from ValleyWag:
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has a real porn problem. The
Washington Post reported last year that Gonzales
is fighting consensual adult porn, sometimes under the guise of fighting
child porn, sometimes not. Now the country's top cop is pushing -- hard -- for
Congress to force Internet service providers to save their users'
records.
It's a hard movement to fight -- everyone's afraid of being marked
"pro-child-porn" -- but it would give the government, fraudsters, and determined
hackers easy access to every Internet user's history. It's part of Gonzales's
effort to control what anyone can see -- whether it's library patrons using
censored Internet connections or home users unwittingly telling the government
whom they e-mailed, called, or Skyped. It's scary as hell and it's
succeeding.
Honestly, is anyone really surprised by this. Isn't this like finding out "Ice-cream is cold and tastes good in the summer." I really wouldn't be surprised if an FBI Agent sent an email around the office tomorrow with my top 10 favorite searches on the Web.
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