Well, you've undoubtedly heard by now that our brilliant legislators apparently lost their freaking minds last week before then fleeing for Summer break. Yes, indeed, it's true: I left town and the prats passed legislation removing most of the FISA limitations to prevent the NSA from spying on everybody under the sun (well, ok, a "foreigner" must be involved, technically).
Susan Landau at the Washington Post has a great write-up on why this is such a remarkably bad deal. Bruce Schneier tags on
with a few references to the recently uncovered Greek telecomm snooping debacle. Most other security sites have already touched on this, too, so I won't say really anything more than I have already.
If you're righteous indignation (or outright anger) about this, then I highly encourage that you take a stand and do something about it!
