Comments on: Wiretapping Your Phone Sex

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:28:37 +0000

Joe, there are these things called FISA courts. . . I’m pretty sure they’ve worked out that someone needs to be on call 24/7 by now.

And these kinds of things would hopefully be less likely in a system with proper oversight, in an administration that encouraged accountability rather than treating all friends as infallible.

What I reckon happens with just about every new technology is that we push it to the limits of what it can do, with just about anything we’ve dreamed up. Sometimes we don’t think of good guidelines for it’s use, sometimes we do. In this case, I think if there Are guidelines (bet there are), nobody cares too much about making sure they’re followed, for whatever reason. That needs to change.

By: D

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:12:52 +0000

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By: Kulkuri

Kulkuri — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:41:52 +0000

Whatever happened to probable cause for authorization of a wire tap. We have enough Big Brother going on without the government listening in on phone sex between people. Just because there is the technology to do something, doesn’t mean it should be done as a matter of course. Besides, all this listening in on any and every phone call distracted from finding the real terrorists.

By: JoeBtfsplk

JoeBtfsplk — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:53:13 +0000

In White’s perfect ant world, everything that is not forbidden is compulsory. In our world, humans are imperfect. That is the secret of human robustness. Laws that attempt to make the world perfect create a rigidity that eventually precludes thought. The great romance of this world is its imperfection. Unless you live in a mental world that is free of Bad Guys that use the telephone, or have an extremely large number of intelligent judges rapidly available 24/7, it may be more constructive to not have to justify monitoring “specifically, each and every time.”