Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails

Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by giffarage on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:02AM (#23178944)

Between Https and VPNs, this seems ineffectual for people who actually want to stay hidden. Am I missing something?

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Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by softwaredoug on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:11AM (#23179043)

Except the US is sadly notorious for weakening encryption standards. One common example is how it was hard for a long time to export strong encryption

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_...

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Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by lenlorijn on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:41AM (#23179348)

Metadata such as what domains/ip's are contacted can still be harvested.

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Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by nickbauman on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:51AM (#23179468)

And remember: metadata is everything. It makes the actual content of the communication discoverable and indexable. The information of what you're saying and doing is not actionable without being able to find it / categorize it at scale.

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