The FBI's Spyware: Is it Watching You?

It's a new erra new times new ways of getting things done! well done a Good Plan allways inproved on GO To IT Bravo! HH.

as i see it ... the goverment has and is going to far!!!were are are privacy rights I am a born american and am nota terrorist so I say no way !!!our rights are going down the drain and we are letting them !!

How stupid and blind are you? Its time to stop the police state! this is America, the country I love. I hate name calling but this puts me over the edge...anyone who does not scream at the top of their lungs against this is an idiot.

IT'S THE WORLD WE LIVE IN NOW. WE HAVE TO GIVE UP SOMETHING TO GIVE THE AUTHOSITIES THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO PROTECT US. GOOD JOB AND THANKS

I think it is a great idea, but I can assure you that this isn't anything new.

I was hacked once by a "friend," and I reported it to the FBI, and they take it quite seriously. I commend them for that.

Al Quada even uses the Internet now. Why wouldn't and shouldn't the FBI track us?

God Bless

remember, remember the fifth of november. it is sad that we are going down this road. what happens when the government goes to far??? absolutely nothing. you can yell and scream and complain and the only thing that will happen is that instead of looking at the capitol from a half mile away, they will push you back to four miles. for the safty and security of the country. and you people will eat everything they feed you. one day it might be poison.

When movies I rent online hit Fox news within 24 hours, you know the Gov't has gone too far with my computer.

track us? u mean them, right?

Doesn't ANYBODY realize that the President is privy to info that WE don't have? Don't you think there's a reason for this?? Tell a congressman something and he goes straight to the media and EVEN OUR ENEMY! WAKE UP AMERICA! We canNOT know everything and still be safe!! Plan an attack....CNN/FOX is "there".....try to rescue somebody.....CNN/FOX is "there"......HOW IN THE HECK TO DO EXPECT TO REMAIN FREE IF THE MEDIA IS ALWAYS "THERE"?????? GET REAL - LIVE FREE OR GET THE "F" out OF AMERICA!!!!!

"Those who sacrifice freedom for security neither deserve, nor will they receive, either"-Ben Franklin.
I believe the police are stymied when it comes to catching criminals (like this kid) and that criminals ARE given to many loopholes but the day IS coming when even the staunchest supporters of this kind of thing WILL regret giving up the small rights and freedoms the are doing now.
If you have a box of rocks and someone comes along and just wants the little ones...pretty soon the 'little' ones are the ones you originally thought were big...and now they'll be gone too.

Hey if they can get stuff off of your computer, then they can also put anything they want on your computer. Then try to prove you didn't do it.

Jason is right. You are all entirely too eager to hand over your rights and privacy to an invasive government. How about you all move to the east coast where it's worse, and let the rest of us go west and cecede from this country where the Constitution means nothing anymore?

Hmmm... If you willingly hand over your freedoms, are you still technically a slave?

C'mon people! You should know by now that if it's online, it ain't no SECRET! I'd much rather prefer the web being monitored that have my child blown away at high school or college - by something that COULD HAVE BE PREVENTED!!

LOL Amendment - Rights Maybe back in 1800's enjoy what America has to offer you be a good little boy/girl and the FBI wont come knocking on your door. But don't be disillusioned by the word freedom that like everything else was for great advertisement only.You do not have freedom of speech because you might offend someone "that is Politically correct by the way", You do not own your home because if corporate wants to build there then domain sets in and you be paid the price they want to pay you. You don't have the right to bare arms - because a criminal might get hurt or forgive us we may hunt animals. Every Amentment has been ratified a number of times were watching it now under Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights. Do really think that amendment means anything LOL our president is stumped on that one. Amendments are like a marriage you can put it writing but when it comes down to it "Its not worth the paper it was written on". That is why its legal for a 12 year old child to buy a cell phone with full Internet use LOL scary what we as a nation has passed just to make a buck. But why yell about it your still making your buck "right"?

Ok, I have a firewall. I don't allow ActiveX. I hide behind a router for with network address translation. I have tested my computer for susceptibility to port scans. I don't even respond to a ping. I believe my Verizon IP address can be matched up with me but is that sufficient for the FBI plant spyware in my computer?

Is there some kind of hidden 'back door' that Microsoft has provided them to circumvent my security?

The sad thing is we as nation threw away our rights just so this pervert goes to court and spends maybe if were lucky 6 months tops in jail. That's for first time offenders they have to repeat at least 3 times to get a real sentence lol

Give me a break, FBI having this isnothing new, heck Bush has us taped if we call certain countries and he didn't let it be known until afterwards. I personally have nothing to hide therefore could care less if they listen in or read my email, if it means safety if it would stop another 9/11 then GO FOR IT with my blessing. We're all so worried about our privacy yet the government is telling us when we can smoke, if we can smoke, what to eat ornot to eat when to pay taxes who to marry this is nothing we are already living in a controlled environment if you don't think so THINK AGAIN

For all of you "I've got nothing to hide" commenters - - so do you have curtains? Mind if I take naked pics of you and post them on the web with your contact info? Can I see your credit card bills for the last year? Joseph Stalin would have LOVED to have some of the powers that the FBI and CIA now have. That doesn't make it a good thing.

I think I may have been spied on this evening. I was forwarding a very funny piece about inept government, heard a "thud", and then lost the word "forward" from the screen and had to wait quite a bit before I was able to continue. At first I thought I had possibly been sent a virus (inadvertantly), but after reading this article, I'm not so sure. I hope that the ACLU will tackle this latest maneuver to take away our privacy. I agree that when due cause exists, there should be the means to in-vestigate, but there should be the same restraints that apply to off-line investigations by police or other governmental agencies. America is looking more and more like a police state, and I don't like it. Even if I am simply Emailing my daughter about a recipe, I would resent "eavesdropping", and if I were a younger person with a boyfriend, I would not want to be spied on during our correspondence.

if you have no rights to your privacy than that goes also for any ss# account # address # credit card #. So i assume that this ruling goes for anybody that decides to access any of this #s