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FBI Confirms Magic Lantern Existence
The_THOMAS (and many others) writes: "A day after major
anti-virus firms waffle on their support for 'Magic Lantern', and nine days
after Thomas C Greene of The Register tried to throw cold
water on it's existence,
the FBI Confirms
the 'Magic Lantern' Project Exist. Welcome to a Brave New World!"
LOL... glad to see you are as irritated by that as I am. Thanks for the post.
AGAIN: If you can't replace "it's" with "it is" in the sentence you were using, use "its". "it is existence" would not be correct; therefore, the correct form of the word is "its".
I don't want to be a troll, but I'm really sick of seeing this kind of amateurish grammar on Slashdot, and I know I'm not the only one. Taco seems to have given up. He always uses "its", but that's not correct either! Remember the "it is" rule stated above, and you'll be correct every time.
P.S. "Better then" is not correct either. When comparing, use "than."
It isn't hard to read. It is available online for free reading. Have a look. I took the time out to read it - and now I know what the parent to this post is on about.
Man who at the FBI fucking thought this stupid shit up. I wonder if the FBI really and truely thinks that 1) this will not catch anybody that is moderately aware of anything about computers 2) that it would actually catch someone doing something wrong? There's far too many ways for knowlegable users to get around stuff like this and somebody somewhere is going to write a little hack that will find and kill the virus. Carnivore is a retarded dragnet intended to make the FBI look less like a giant pile of shit because somehow people will feel secure if they know terrorists can't e-mail each other using hidden messages. Magic Lantern is just an addition to a shitty idea which is only going to cause the FBI more problems. ML will get isolated and someone will use it for their own purposes. It is as fucking simple as that. The first case of the virus being used by a "hacker terrorist" to infect a company and cause them "billions" of dollars in damages the FBI is going to once again look like a big pile of shit. On top of that the damn thing will probably never catch a terrorist. With the proliferation of computers and internet access anywhere it would be hard to catch anybody sending messages to someone. Like the terrorists in Semptember, they used a public library's fucking computer to send e-mails to people. They didn't encrypt anything, they just sent a coded message. This post could be a coded message and nobody would fucking know it unless they knew what to look for. Maybe instead of writing computer virii the FBI should look up the research the CIA did on ESP. That'd probably find them more fucking criminals. Hopefully they start with their directorate and work their way down.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
There were 5 instances of the f-word and 4 instances of the s-word. Just what were you trying to tell somebody.
1 s 1 f - Buy booze
1 s 2 f - Fly plane into building......
After a couple of years of reading slashdot, I think I have built up a resistance to bad grammar. I don't even notice these anymore. Sometimes I even forget that you don't spell hacker with a 4 and an x.
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Don't cha think preventitive warfare is in order.
You know, like preventitive healthcare.
osearth - Who are the real terrorist?
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