Sunday, October 6, 2013

No Tor for you

The NSA wants to crack (or is cracking) the private encryption software known as Tor. They don't want private citizens to enjoy secure communications, due to the government's terrorism and counterintelligence concerns:

http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/10/04/i-con-the-record-admits-all-this-spying-also-serves-counterintelligence/

Perhaps it's time for the NSA, Congress, and the courts to read this:

US Constitution, 4th Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Read that again:
The right of the people to be secure ...

The PEOPLE have a constitutional right to be secure.

The government has NO such constitutional right.

But the National (Homeland) Security State has turned this principle on its head. Somehow THEY now have a right to be secure, but you don't.

Why are we tolerating this shit?

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