The Third Amendment

The Third Amendment states:

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Now I suspect that no one ever really uses this, namely it would just be assumed that the Military would never even assume to take refuge in an individual's home.

But then I read the EFF note regarding the NSA.  First, the NSA is part of DoD, thus the military. Second, their intrusion mechanisms places electronic soldiers in citizen's homes, namely their computers. Think of them as a small room in our homes.

As the article states:

In order to accomplish the first step of getting a user to visit a site under your control, an attacker might email the victim text that contains a link to the website in question, in a so-called phishing attack. The NSA reportedly uses phishing attacks sometimes, but we've learned that this step usually proceeds via a so-called “man-in-the-middle” attack. 

The NSA controls a set of servers codenamed “Quantum” that sit on the Internet backbone, and these servers are used to redirect targets away from their intended destinations to still other NSA-controlled servers that are responsible for the injection of malware. 

So, for example, if a targeted user visits “yahoo.com”, the target's browser will display the ordinary Yahoo! landing page but will actually be communicating with a server controlled by the NSA. This malicious version of Yahoo!'s website will tell the victim's browser to make a request in a background to another server controlled by the NSA which is used to deploy malware.

Once a victim visits a malicious website, how does the attacker actually infect the computer? Perhaps the most straightforward method is to trick the user into downloading and running software. A cleverly designed pop-up advertisement may convince a user to download and install the attacker's malware, for example.

This could be considered a quartering of "soldiers" in a house. Namely they send their SoldierBOTs down to our homes and they then take up residence whereby we feed and clothe them, metaphorically, and thereby we have been breached in our Third Amendment rights. Namely we have these small electronic military forces entering our homes without our permission and being fed, that is they get our paid for electricity, and thus we are housing and feeding them. Kinda like quartering them, ya think?

Just a thought!