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US intel chief wants carte blanche to peep all 'Net traffic |
 Jan 19 2008, 09:48 PM
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 Venting Addict  Group: Members Posts: 612 Joined: 21-September 07 From: 1AU from a G2V Star Member No.: 81  |
QUOTE Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell discusses a plan in the works to dramatically expand online surveillance. As The Wall Street Journal sums it up, "in order to accomplish his plan, the government must have the ability to read all the information crossing the Internet in the United States in order to protect it from abuse." http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...et-traffic.html Silly me, I thought they were already doing this as much as possible http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/i...oo_secret_.html -------------------- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster"    |
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Jan 19 2008, 09:54 PM
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 Who's your Daddy? Group: Moderator Posts: 1,986 Joined: 13-August 07 From: Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA Member No.: 11 |
Well the good news to me is that would mean at least someone is reading my posts!
-------------------- I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!  |
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Jan 19 2008, 10:53 PM
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Venting Addict Group: Members Posts: 612 Joined: 21-September 07 From: 1AU from a G2V Star Member No.: 81 |
I think they're going to need a bigger hard drive.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/17/ho...kdown_insanity/ http://www.plasticboy.de/?p=17 -------------------- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster" |
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Jan 20 2008, 09:43 AM
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 Vented Out Group: Administrators Posts: 1,360 Joined: 10-August 07 From: USA Member No.: 8 |
I read that article and just shook my head sadly. How much privacy will we give up because of the excuse that it is for our protection?
Z -------------------- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should be silent.
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