We need protection. Passwords, we don't need no stinking passwords. Betcha soon, coming to a dictatorship near you, we will be able to count on some new Bureau of Thought Crimes to help catch those pesky criminals too.!.!.! Catch those "bad guys" while they still are in the planning stages. Undoubtedly, the "good guys" must have instant, easy access to any PC in order to download those evil plans in conjuction for hard proof of their evil plans. I feel safer already...

Added: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:50 EDT

According to this:
[Link] MS claims that the USB drives contain publicly available tools, but they just made them run automatically to make life easier. Even if they are lying through their teeth, I'm not worried about this kind of thing; I'm worried about the kind of thing that intell agencies can do that is probably decades in advance of what the NSA could do in fictional movies like Enemy of the State. It is well-known that it's possible to remotely read emissions from keyboards, screens, etc. It is also well-known that the equipment that forms the backbone of the internet is required by law (US law, anyway) to contain backdoors for "legal wiretaps". That's what we DO know about. So, from there, just use your imagination to figure out what classified toys they have now... Of course, the only problem is that new toys like this one put more snooping power into more hands, instead of that power being concentrated into the hands of certain agencies.

Added: Fri, 02 May 2008 05:24 EDT

This criminalising people before their guilty of committing a crime already goes on in the UK to some degree, when we can be charged not with making a bomb as in the old days, but of being in possession of material that could possibly be used to make one, even if you had no intention of doing so. I wonder if these USB drives will come equiped pre-loaded with false evidence to plant in case they dont find what they want to see?

Added: Fri, 02 May 2008 05:34 EDT

That's it. I'm going linux.

Added: Fri, 02 May 2008 12:21 EDT

referring to "our enemies", "we need to know what they are thinking". Very soon all thinking will be criminalized since it leads people to figure out what is being done to them. Clearly this must be stopped at all costs. First step.. get rid of thinking aids such as nicotine... next find ways of finding thinkers and punish them harshly. Perhaps you should change the tag line for this website... "for people who think".

Added: Mon, 05 May 2008 07:55 EDT