Government monitoring of private chat rooms would be -- nuts
These bipartisan calls for the government to monitor *private*
Internet chat rooms for leaked classified information (or other
criminal activity) are -- to use plain English -- totally nuts.
Even leaving aside the obvious privacy and slippery slope issues, such
monitoring is almost certainly doomed to failure, since it will
trigger users all over the Net "seeding" those chat rooms with
suspicious keywords and fake conversations designed to confuse both
automated and human monitors, and waste their time and resources.
Meanwhile, genuine bad actors will find ways to obscure their
conversations and materials from that scanning.
So yeah -- it's nuts. -L
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--Lauren--
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