Apr
19
Well, it seems that you can put anything through Congress as long as you’re doing it to protect children, as the DOJ wants more money for monitoring P2P networks. Granted, while going after child predators is certainly necessary and worthwhile:
“Recent revelations about the FBI’s honeypot scheme for catching possible child porn traders do give some cause for concern over the lack of detail on how the system works, a concern that’s only likely to grow as the system itself grows. There’s no doubt that child exploitation ruins lives, but so could the high number of false positives associated with computer-automated surveillance and tracking systems, especially when combined with aggressive prosecution and the overall technical ignorance of CSI-watching juries.”
Following the second and third links above brings you to a related story about how the FBI is arresting people for merely clicking links. Now they want more money to continue the practise, making it more likely that the potential for false-positives will only increase.
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