I stumbled across this article about wiretaps(well not really, since I read ars almost every day). However, I think this is something that anybody who uses a computer can read and understand. There is definitly a standing debate over which is more important: security vs. privacy, where people seem to think that by giving up some of our rights to privacy our law enforcement agencies can make us safer. The article makes some excellent points. I like to ride the fence on this one, on one hand if we're abiding by the laws we have nothing to fear of the government snooping on our lives. However, why should I believe that the people doing the snooping are any better than the people being snooped? If you really want to provide widespread coverage, that means a lot of personnel, and inevitably one of them is going to go bad. What then? There's definitly a line where people start to distrust the law simply because they become big brother. When people don't trust the law, they start to break the law.