>Similarly, there is very good reason to require very formal search >warrants before e-mail & web traffic can be tapped for law enforcement >purposes. It is trivial to impersonate someone on the net; if someone >wanted me in jail, and warrants with good propbable cause were not >required to tap my web surfing habits, it would be very easy to fake up >a web log showing me downloading kiddie porn. You don't even have to >fake the logs: you just go download the kiddie porn, and spoof the IP >address so it looks like I did it. I may be wrong. But I believe these rules changed shortly after the Patriot Act. Without a warrant, legal authorities are now allowed to capture to/from information, but not the content. Jimmy
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