Comments on: FBI director wants ISPs to track users

Robert Mueller becomes latest Bush administration official to call for ISPs to store customers' data.

[naradra]

oh well...

My my

Such a lovely debate. But for ISP to try and track user only seams just so impractical and a big waste of hardware, I mean saying that this machine as googled child porn or terrorist doesn?t even prove anything and even if you can find evidence on that machine that someone looked at lest say land mine information or pipe bomb and have some document saved on the H.D. you still have to prove it?s really a particular person doing and that might be a problem, but wait I think they can throw anyone in a hole and torture him all they want until he ?confess?. You might not be there yet but its coming. Anyway that is pretty much beside the point. The thing is it?s going to be impractical to log and save every email, photo, pdf, video, and what ever else peoples do with all the logs it just isn?t practical. And after that there is the need for someone to go trough ?all that data? to see the little pieces of evidence they need, so either you?re security agencies have lot?s of man powers to spares or just need a good pretext to watch movie and porn all day instead of doing there work. After that there is the issue of falsified evidence I mean if they want they can just come up and ?make up evidence? and since non of us back up and logs everything we do with files date and all we won?t have any evidence if they do.

And in regard to U.S. government being so worry about other country nuclear program is because a nuclear weapon is so much more potentially armful to them than what they brilliantly showed the Japanese at the end of WW2. A country like North Korea armed with a nuke and who was against the wall could or would probably use the weapon like this. Make it detonate in high enough in the atmospheres over North America so that the Electro Magnetic Pulse in globe most of the continent and instantly fry up all our fancy electronic world. That?s right nothing would be working from you?re TV passing by you?re microwave oven to you?re car, the bank computer system, internet traffic light phones lines I think you see the picture by now. So exception of some military hardware every last bit of electronic would be out of commission it would take month see years to decades to get back from that. And all that with out any victim of the nuclear detonation itself, but would instantly be thousand or even million of peoples dieing of accident, hospital equipment halting function and the like would be disastrous and that is what frighten the US about who is developing that type of weapon it?s not that they will kill innocents like they themselves did twice half a century ago but it would totally destroy north America and not just the US, and they know if they start a war with them they won?t think twice before doing it once they will be back against the wall. Now the issue is more of how will they manage it but I don?t worry about that to much they are resourceful enough I?m sure they?ll find a way.

As for the US government action as far as I?m concerned they are like a panicked person who is drowning and is trying to bring more peoples into the water in hope of getting out at there expense it?s as simple as that. I mean they US is currently like an over extended fighter who cannot put any sort of efficient defense should something occur. I mean yeah I have to give tribute to the American people they did good and not so good thing but now it?s time to let it go before it back fire just let other country govern themselves and work on you?re own country and problem before looking for yet another ?victim? before to me and most of the outside world the so called Iraq war was more like a one sided mass slaughter than anything else and since they couldn?t fight on a far ground now they use cheap under handed tactics to get revenge and well from now on there administration should stop complaining about it since they ditched the Geneva convention and what it stand for so and after they come and cry that the badies doesn?t respect the ?Rules of engagement? that?s just dumb if you don?t plan to respect peoples beside the fact they don?t see things you?re way then you should stops complaining when the peoples you try to oppress don?t ?abide by you?re rules?.

Anyway that is only my two cents. And since I?m not even a US citizen yes yes I?m a Canadian and a French speaking one at that can you believe that, peoples do exist outside you?re border you can bash in if you like. So for now I?m going to sleep and maybe check up when I wake up if any comment other than the usual ?**** you *****? that seams to be what the average frustrated or proven wrong American can come up with is going to be posted up.

So have a nice day all love you and take care.

[billyv88]

What will happen.

The government will spend more time cracking down on gambling sites, adult porn, and political disidents sites than they will on real problems like terrorists and child predators.

Law enforcement personnel is already strected to the limit and the higher ups seem more concerned about gambling, legalize drugs sites, the ACLU than they are with the real threats.

[fred dunn]

FBI has historically been intrusive & abusive

My father was an FBI agent until he took sick and died. After I requested his personnel records I could see why he got sick and died. They are like wolves, they eat their own.
J. Edgar Hoover had records on all prominent politicians so he could do what ever he wanted.
Nothing has changed except that after the Bush administration it doesn't matter whether it's DHS, FBI, CIA, it all winds up being KGB.

There is no difference between the old KGB tactics and today's US Homeland Security tactics. They can pick you up and you just "disappear".

I'll tell you what Director, I'll give you my records if you give me yours.