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Why are you citing sources such as UPI when posting in Slashdot? I find it hard to believe that sources other than UPI didn't cover the topics covered in UPI's article.

UPI's integrity as a news covering agency has disintegrated years ago and noone buys news from them any more. Just because robots like Google go fetch their articles doesn't mean they are any good.

UPI's integrity and news covering reliability has diminished to zero when a cult bought it, which dates back as long as 2000 which was followed by Helen Thomas leavingleaving in protest (UPI's leading reporter for over 20 years).

For me everyday is Echelon day :)

Seriously though, I haven't heard of any organized "silent protest" for a long time.
Does the NSA really have so much computing power that it's useless to even try to bother them?

ok here are some links... I didn't spend much time so there isn't much... but it should give you an idea. As I mentioned earlier, it is harder to find stuff fore the present day (90's and 2000's), not because they are less corrupt, but because the information only comes out after a while. Some of these stories may be duplicates--I didn't spend time weeding them out...

DISCLAIMER: I have not checked the sources. I am hoping that none of this is fabricated information. Questionable sources are marked with (Q)

Hoover's F.B.I. and the Mafia: Case of Bad Bedfellows Grows
J Edgar Hoover (Q)
Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and A Devil's Deal
Deadly Alliance: The FBI's Secret Partnership With the Mob
FBI Protection Of Informants Condemned In Mob Ruling
FBI Corruption & The Justice Department ....05.04.00
Round Up The Usual Suspects (Q)
The Government-Criminal Connection - Part Three (Q)
Armed Conflict in America (Q) (blatantly biased against the left-wing... just read the quoted article in the middle of the page)
Ruling due on FBI link to mob: Immunity offer claim at center of decision.

Funny story, Bush blocks mob investigation (read the 2nd story): Bush Invokes Executive Privilege in Mob-FBI Case
Anyway I hope that provides A LITTLE BIT of the FBI corruption.

BTW, what the hell is a dot head? Does this mean that you work for the FBI? Did I just blow your cover? ;)

Sivaram Velauthapillai

I think that any responible company would get this software to protect themselves from the Patrick Naughtons of this world.

Here.

NSA does not spy/eavesdrop on US citizens.

Well, they certainly DID in the past. Read up on Operation Shamrock, which was the wholesale monitoring of US cable communications. This isn't anti-government crazytalk; this stuff really happened. It's well documented in books like The Puzzle Palace.

Considering the audacity they showed before I am not prepared to say that they do not spy on citizens.

Here is an interesting link about another book by the Puzzle Palace guy.

Read their charter; i'm pretty sure it's not classified.

The current charter is classified. The original 1950s version is available though.

The NSA is super spooky. Read The Puzzle Palace if you have the time. A bit dry in parts, but fascinating in others.

I couldn't agree more. Call me sappy, but reading a story like this is a really uplifting thing for me. Everyday it seems that I wake up to a new injustice. A CIPA, a UCITA, a CPRM, a new report on money in politics ignored by M$NBC because they helped put the money there, lives ruined in a drug war, lives taken in a legalized cartel. The frustration builds until it seems hopeless -- and then it's all erased by one day in a story like this one.

Anyway, enough with the mushy stuff, I just hope I'll be first in line.

True, we live in a time where information talks. But, do we have to be a slave to it?

As much as I don't like the idea of utilities like HailStorm, the burden of maintaining privacy is the job of society as a whole. Those who feel comfortable divulging extremely personal information can and those of us who wish not to can remain, for all intents and purposes, anonymous to Microsoft. So, we'll at least have the freedom to choose.

As a society I think we prize ease and convience over privacy and that is sad, but people don't understand what giving away that much information is opening them up to. Only recently have people had their identities stolen because they used their credit card at a restaurant or similar. People are hard headed and don't learn easily. They have to get screwed over before they learn not to do something again.

So, let those who are unwise and unwary get sucked in and you and I can stay safely out of the way.

I am not particularly hard core about 'living anonymously', but I do steer clear of excessive doling out of my SSN and such. However, if you have become sufficiently paranoid you can check out this privacy guide to learn some sweet tricks on how to fall between the cracks.

Cpunkgrrl