The internet is filled with threats real and imagined, from malicious hackers to government censors. Beyond the hacks and cracks — and in celebration of Sunshine Week — we've compiled a brief list of some of the biggest public and private threats facing the internet.

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David Edwards and Muriel Kane Published: Wednesday January 21, 2009

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When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won't just get a new president; they might finally learn the full extent of George W. Bush's warrantless domestic wiretapping.

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The final vote was a rout: 69-28. No surprises here. Just the weight of disappointment.

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The Senate today rejected three amendments that would have withheld immunity from telecomms that participated in the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. AP sums up the votes:

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The United States Senate is about to vote on a FISA bill that would not only expand the president's powers of surveillance over American citizens but would also forestall civil suits against the telecoms that illegally participated in past surveillance.

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Nobody wants to have a confrontation over the fact that the President committed a felony – not one, but at least 30 times. That's a very inconvenient fact right now in Washington. Watch it:

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Sen. Dodd, who left the presidential campaign trail to threaten a FISA filibuster, appears ready to follow through on the filibuster inclination.

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Nearly 1,300 words into Sunday's New York Times article revealing new details of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, the lawyer for an AT&T engineer alleges that "within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive ef …

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Since Bush came, the FBI, the NSA, and the Pentagon have been watching and keeping files on peaceful activists, and infiltrating groups like Greenpeace. In January 2007, the president announced that he's allowed to open Americans' mail.

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"Senator Obama has serious concerns about many provisions in this bill, especially the provision on giving retroactive immunity to the telephone companies. He is hopeful that this bill can be improved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Will House Speaker Nancy Pelosi come clean now that it is clear that the National Security Agency (NSA) was turned loose on American citizens well before 9/11? She has admitted knowing for several years about the Bush administration's eavesdropping on Americans without a court wa …

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It's hard – often impossible – to prove that secret government wiretapping in the name of national security is violating one's privacy rights. The evidence itself usually is top secret.

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The US Congress late Saturday gave final approval to a White House-backed plan to extend the power of US intelligence agents to eavesdrop on terror suspects, giving a long-sought victory to President George W.

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Glenn Greenwald quotes Jonathan Turley (Law professor at GWU):

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All part of a sensible, rational program based on the conservative values of thrift, caution, practicality, the rights of the individual, and smaller government.

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Illegal Surveillance Boons

I am confused about the recent furor over the President's wire-tapping program. Yes, the program may be illegal, according to the FISA guidelines which were written in 1978. But everyone knows a document written that long ago is archaic to the point of uselessness.

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Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. And you TRUST these jokers with protecting you?

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And yet more re-invention of history and pro-wiretapping blather from the neo-con right. Don't let 'em fool you...

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