Dream Machine

[KlausVT]

Rose,

I did not want to downplay the possibilities this could open if indeed the intention of the government was to use all its capabilities to harness the existing info on those computers but it would not be forever and all times as the other part not emphasized was this applies only "while logged into" the .gov system. This is just good security on the governments part (as any decent company would do allowing VPN access to their corporate computer systems) and I surely appreciate this as I would not want viruses potentially existing on these dealer computers to infiltrate the gov computers or someone maliciously using these dealer computers to gain unwanted access to gov computers.
Should the agreement used been more specific for this particular purpose instead of using their general VPN access policy for gov employees, absolutely, but in this instance I trust the gov that there was no ill intention (though there might be other cases far less obvious where this is the case) and being skeptical of any org in power is a healthy thing.