| "Your statement just gave the downstream company your tacit authorization to hack you back in order to "swim upstream" to find the original hacker. Or to destroy their IP on your compromised device. Or to destroy your device altogether" Do you actually think this is the only way the government knows that an attack took place from a foreign actor? Botnets exist and our government knows full well that it's an infected machine and not the user of that machine that's attacking websites on the Internet. "And Trump's cybersecurity advisor (General Flynn) doesn't think it's possible that the FBI could scan 650,000 emails from Anthony Weiner's computer to search for known recipients, keywords, or to de-duplicate the corpus.[1]" In 8 days? I'm suspect as well that they could actually comb through all of the required emails in only 8 days. I'm not sure if you are intentionally trying to mislead with your comment, but the link you provided doesn't show us that he didn't think the government could do it. Only that it seems unlikely that the government could get through all of the emails in 8 days. "Where have you been for the past decade?" Living through the Obama administration and his piss-poor policies on user privacy. My point was that I am trying to be optimistic about Trump's presidency and I hope these things change. "Even if you don't think your metadata is worth getting worked up about, thermal scopes, your electrical usage, sniff dogs on your front porch, stingrays that affect all cell phone users within their radius. And everything is digital, so there is potential for future abuse both within and without the agency that collects the data." I don't even want my Metadata being used by the government. I am 100% for privacy of US citizens. |