Why does the "Cars for Clunkers" website make your computer completely open to the US Government?

Question

"This application provides access to the DoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, you computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the propery of the US Government.

"Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign."

cars.gov

With the current crop of 0bamaczars, would YOU accept this condition?

Is Big Brother warming up in the bullpen?

And the libs complained about Bush's wiretapping!

Answer 1

EXACTLY.............Glenn Beck warned people on his program today about the site. BIG BROTHER anyone??? Well with this Administration it is definitely here.

Answer 2

Yes, I forget what it's called but in the EU they have a machine that reads through emails. FBI once had a program called carnivore that allowed spying. What about Cell phones and SMS messages(text messages) again the SMS standard is open. So it's quite possible for the government spy on you there too. What about talking on the phone? Last time I checked there just wasn't a working algorithm for voice recognitions so that means that the ability to analyze words in speech isn't quite accurate. But that doesn't mean they don't try and pick up what they can. China for one censors it's people from sites promoting freedom and such. Muslim nations such as Iran and Saudi Arabia also don't allow people to view sites that can undermines their beliefs or governments. They have devices that look for "strange activity" and they remove the bad apples.... I used to program routers, the devices that allow the Internet function. All it takes is a well crafted access-list and a government is blocking traffic. Emails/IM's are not even encrypted so that means anyone can read them with a packet sniffer. But that doesn't matter cause the government probably already knows how to crack most encryption and can read them anyways. America and UK are the only places that you can really use the Internet without restrictions. So be thankful if you live there because they don't block all your usage..

Answer 3

Beck was wrong. Car dealers have to accept this, which seems to be a standard statement when logging into any federal computer. Here is the link (which you'll notice is NOT from cars.gov- Thanks to DailyKos)



https://supplierpayments.esc.gov/OA_HTML/RF.jsp?function_id=28716&resp_id=-1&resp_appl_id=-1&security_group_id=0&lang_code=US¶ms=1QjBbvK328ZbUaSUNj3kbu7K3gvpagsk17LptZc1LOg

Answer 4

More government control. This needs to be exposed as much as possible.



Excellent point "And the libs complained about Bush's wiretapping!"

Answer 5

I'm guessing you read where somebody SAID this is what it says.

But either way, privacy issues are very complicated these days, and they may need to cover themselves legally.

What if some hacker loaded a virus onto the system? Should everybody in the US be able to SUE the federal government for it?

Answer 6

In my very uneducated opinion;

Government is good at collecting data. But government really sucks at putting the collected data to productive use.

Answer 7

Interesting how there are at least TWO typos in this supposedly official policy...



How about a link? I don't see this on the cars.gov site.



***Don't just say "from the site" -- give us the URL.***



Here's their privacy policy -- it says NOTHING of the sort:



http://www.dot.gov/privacy.html



LYING again?

Answer 8

Only thing is, you made that up. The website doesn't say anything like that.

Answer 9

sounds like Korea

Answer 10

Why have you got something to hide. If not then whats the problem. I wish someone had been spying on the 911 terrorist.

Answer 11

Wow dude, that is scary.