recently ran a report about the Cars.gov website, the official "Cars for Clunkers" site that allows you to trade in your old car and get money to buy a new, fuel-efficient vehicle, has a very odd Terms of Service.

When you click on the button on the official site to submit a transaction, a warning box pops up that states the following:
So basically, by clicking on "Continue", you've just made your personal computer, in your home, a Federal computer system, which would allow the government to spy on it!

Video:

View YouTUBE video http://youtube.com/watch?v=bWs12ccbOiE

One could only imagine the different uses for such a system (MPAA/RIAA, spying on you, etc)...

Also, if you want to see this for yourself, you can't, because cars.gov has been overloading and crashing ever since the program started last week.

they probably think if you have a crappy car that you are also too poor to buy music so you steal it...

That doesn't mean they can view your hard drive. That means they monitor what goes on when you use cars.gov

What the fuck?
Is this shit for real?

Wouldn't doubt it.

Bureaucrats

If they're able to view my harrdrive from my browser they earned it.

"uses of this system and all files"


conspiracy

lulwut?
inb4 conspiricy. (bad spelling I know)

You have to be signed into it though, so just stop pirating shit when you login.

What if my hard drive is full of goatse?

Very Concerning but, I understand why they did it for the own governments protection.

How is it protecting the government?

referring to

At least the government was nice enough to tell us ahead of time they were going to invade our privacy.

Edited:

The only reason he's at risk is because he's using IE.

Oh yeah, it's definitely worded weird there. The "property of the US Government" part doesn't help though.

thank god i won't own a car for a few years and i won't have to use this piece of junk.

I saw this on glenn beck.. crazy shit.

You guys really think they can view your harddrive?

Glenn Beck was talking about this.
You have to be incredibly thick to believe that it's a scam.

well you guys are freaking idiots, good job

yet again i'm actually offended at the slow dumb-witted people that roam around the internet


"take that human race!"

This is probably just a way to see if you have stolen music.

You don't believe the moon landings happened.
You have no credibility.

so guys how is it possible for this light doesn't exist without oxygen

You don't believe there's anything wrong with underage homosexuality.
You have no credibility.

(User was banned for this post ("Homophobia." - ventilated))

At first I thought Beck had finally discovered something great, I was proud of him. Then he started ranting about the czars and how evil they are.

Edited:

The site operates as a .gov, it's clearly some kind of government site.

FUCK! I was just on that site a few days ago!

Aren't you only supposed to submit transactions as the car dealer?

lol u watch glenn beck

underage homosexuality isn't any worse than underage heterosexuality

The article is misleading. Your computer is only considered a federal computer when you are logged on to the system. Once you log out, they can't see you.

SO I CAN CLOSE CP BEFORE I LOG ON? Phew!

Kinda scary still man. I'm not gonna do it.

I loled at the octopus part

Hax.

oh wow something relevant on faux news

Interesting fact, to enter your country (which involved getting that new form thing), I had to go on to a gov website that came up with that message.

Slightly worrying seeing as I live in the UK.

If I did this on my laptop, would my main computer still be "Personal", as in, not monitored?

Oh, so homosexuality is OK as long as you're 18?

Oh, so they can only spy on me when I'm logged in? Okay that makes it all better then.

The "Cash for Clunkers" ran out of money 4 days after it started. Really goes to show how well bureaucracy is working for us.

Source?