so basically, the fbi gets to put a packet sniffer on systems when they want. riiight… about those tps reports.

/ puts it this way:

When Congress enacts this sort of program, they always give it a name like “The Freedom of Infants and Children Act” or the “Prevention of Violence to Puppies Act” with a rider that slips in the big-brother grants of power.

The FBI, on the other hand, gives it a name that can’t help but encourage visions of a government run-amok eating its citizens. Which, come to think of it, is not too far from the truth.