The wording here truly blows my mind;
any person who intentionally manufactures, assembles, possesses, or sells
any electronic, mechanical, or other device,
knowing or having reason to know that
the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the
surreptitious interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications,
and that such device *or any component thereof*
has been *or will be*
sent through the mail or *transported in interstate or foreign commerce*
What does the phase "primarily useful" even mean in this context? Is the iPhone 'Voice Memo' app primarily useful for these purposes? Or more pointedly, what about mitmproxy or Wireshark?
Forget 3 felonies a day, how about 10^3. Shit, I have in my possession dozens of 'electronic, mechanical, or other device(s) which are primarily useful for [surreptitious] interception of wire, oral, and electronic communications'. Last time I checked they ship with the OS.
I Googled 'primarily useful' they are almost all links to this law itself. On page 2 there was link with the title 'Subwoofers primarily useful for action movies?' which was a nice reprieve.
What differentiates a design, monitoring, or debugging tool designed for the interception of wire / electronic communications from one primarily useful for surreptitious interception? Maybe the later come with cool names like FOXACID and DEEPMINDFUCK. Maybe they should have thought twice before renaming Ethereal to WireShark!
Forget 3 felonies a day, how about 10^3. Shit, I have in my possession dozens of 'electronic, mechanical, or other device(s) which are primarily useful for [surreptitious] interception of wire, oral, and electronic communications'. Last time I checked they ship with the OS.
I Googled 'primarily useful' they are almost all links to this law itself. On page 2 there was link with the title 'Subwoofers primarily useful for action movies?' which was a nice reprieve.
What differentiates a design, monitoring, or debugging tool designed for the interception of wire / electronic communications from one primarily useful for surreptitious interception? Maybe the later come with cool names like FOXACID and DEEPMINDFUCK. Maybe they should have thought twice before renaming Ethereal to WireShark!