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2. Anything you write in an e-mail can be used against you.
Nothing is private, especially not when it goes through Google (Gmail's)
hands. If America's top spy, the head of the CIA, can get caught writing
secret love letters to his girlfriend on Gmail, nobody's e-mails are safe.
Petraeus and his clandestine girlfriend, Paula Broadwell, took some troubles
to keep their illicit correspondence safe. They reportedly relied on a
trick used by some al Qaeda operatives. They left messages to each other in
the drafts folder of an account, the password to which they both knew,
thinking they would remain for their eyes only. But it didn't work.
When the FBI came calling, Google opened up its shockingly large files, as
it does with shocking regularity. Google knows everything about you, and it
frequently shares with those who ask. Google's own reports say it passed
information to authorities in response to 93 percent of government requests
in the second half of 2011. Nothing in Google's hands is guaranteed to
remain private.
3. The FBI can investigate practically anyone in the U.S., even the director
of Central Intelligence.
That's a stunning notion to contemplate, and it says both good and bad
things about America. First the good: no one is above reproach, not even a
man whose power is vast and often elaborately concealed. In fact, if you ask
the world's great conspiracy theorists, they will tell you the CIA can do
anything, anywhere, at any time. But its boss got found out by his own
country's law enforcement gumshoes. That's amazing.
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Score a point for the rule of law in America, but subtract one for privacy,
and another for the randomness of FBI work. It seems rather strange that the
FBI decided to pursue a case of harassing e-mails. I was once personally
told by an FBI agent, in no uncertain terms, that the FBI had no time to
spend on threats sent over the Internet, even if the messages included a
threat to kill. |
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