I’ll admit I haven’t read through the whole article in the link below, but the government legally hacked someone? The fact that “legal” and “hacked” appear in the same sentence is a little concerning.
That being said, it is feasible that there are times when something like this might need to happen – National Security etc – and this was with reference to Wikileaks …but, what rights do we really have? Are liberties taken, or do we even believe that the liberties should be taken.
My thought is it can go either way, but if you are going to take away someone’s right to privacy, there had better be a darn good reason. That being said, I’ve heard talk of traffic traveling over and IP (what a concept) doesn’t belong the the person that is using the IP, therefore, can be intercepted. Really? That’s a little low don’t you think?
Soap box aside, like I said this conversation could go either way, here’s the link. See what you think about it – here, courtesy of the Guardian, UK.
