Comments on: Politicians call for better phone record privacy

After disclosures that phone records are for sale online, Congress wants to know if telcos are protecting customers.

[jasonemanuelson1]

Yeah, whatever

Congress doing anything in the communications realm is
nothing but a huge joke. Look at CANSPAM. More holes than
Windows 98. They spend more time bickering than
accomplishing a single thing, unless the whole world's spotlight
is on it. I will believe that they accomplished something when I
see it. Unless something affects a congressperson, their efforts
are less than stellar. If it does matter, they choke when it comes
to making the legislation have any teeth.

Yes, I concede that there are some good congresspeople, but as
a whole, the Three Stooges get more accomplished.

[hscoggin]

Isn't that sweet?

It's really entertaining to watch the government get all concerned about "protecting" our cell phone records. The question is, why would anyone worry about this, when the government itself has easy access to these and other records at will?

[ddesy]

Sweet enough to make you sick...

Not only does to government have access to this, but they go one step beyond this and tap phones without warrant now, too! Pretty loud and clear to me that they don't really care about privacy.

[Joey280922]

Hackers.

Hello I'm Joey, I say the govener needs to find a way to put a stop to these hackers stealing our ID Information & Credit cards #'s... It gets real annoying when you go to check your e-mail & it say's wrong password because you've been hacked! I mean I got hacked once myself but. I stoped it. I reported them & I never accepted anything els from anybody. Only people I know. Hacker's are real annoying. There is a "Hacker Squad" called g00ns. Maybe some of you have heard of them. Well, They hacked me once taking over my PC(computer). I don't know if they think it's funny or somthing but it makes me mad to see people falling for e-mail's & stuff that "fruads" send.

[ddesy]

Ummm... not quite.

What you are talking about isn't regular hackers. You are talking about black-hat hackers, aka crackers. Plus most people individuals that think they have been hacked either mistook a regular error for a hack or have been hacked by someone that they upset.

Also, most people who find "wrong password" errors coming up have not been hacked at all but have made an error themselves. Trust me, I deal with it all the time. Either they don't pay attention to case sensitive passwords, put in an old password, mistype a password, have a program save an old password, etc...