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House and Senate Reject E-mail Surveillance
vena writes "The Star Tribune reports the House and Senate today agreed not to allow email surveillance of American citizens proposed by the Total Information Awareness program. Additionally, negotiators agreed to halt all future funding on the program without extensive consultation with Congress."
Does this mean I can stop using PGP?
Trolling is a art,
Yay! The good guys finally win one.
Suck on that, herr Ashcroft...
I guess even they couldn't stomach the idea of reading other people's spam.
Too bad, they could have compared prices on herbal viagra.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
personal emails may be a little to spicy.
Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -FB
all your mail are not belong to us
I'll quite happily turn myself into the nearest police station and admit that I earn money working from home whilst looking at hot girl-on-girl, aided by my generic Viagra and playing with 12 inch weener.
Finally! The black car in front of my house is going to leave!
Posting as directed.
I was worried about people seeing my love letters to CowboyNeal. That he NEVER RESPONDS TO
is that i can't spell AT ALL and the editors fixed all my mistakes :)
I liked this quote better:
"Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., senior Democrat on the subcommittee, said of the program, "Jerry's against it, and I'm against it, so we kept the Senate amendment." Of the Pentagon, he said, "They've got some crazy people over there."
No shit.
"Give a woman two glasses of wine and some pad thai, and they'll agree to just about anything." the Sports Guy
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From the article:
"One important factor in the breadth of the opposition is the fact that the project is headed by retired Adm. John Poindexter. Several members of Congress have said he is an unwelcome symbol because he was convicted of lying to Congress when he was President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser. That his conviction was reversed on the grounds that he had been given immunity for the testimony in which he lied did not mitigate congressional opinion, they said."
Oh, suuuure you promise it wouldn't be used to violate citizens' privacy. We believe you.
Who? Didn't Hussein blow up the Maine, shoot Archduke Ferdinand, stage the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, invade Poland, sneak attack Pearl Harbor, drop nukes on Japan, invade South Korea, cause the Gulf of Tonkin incident, run drugs into the US via Columbia, blow up the Marine barracks in Beirut, and shoot down TWA 800?
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All of my friends have been asking me why I keep randomly throwing spy USCOI Mena bluebird virus Sears Tower electronic surveillance Vince Foster White Water ASPIC industrial espionage Semtex CBNRC Mossad Juiliett Class Submarine all these strange words into my emails. It's from spook, a military asset class struggle AUTODIN Mafia MDA genetic cryptographic South Africa Crypto AG keyhole Rubin Medco eavesdropping Chobetsu little emacs script that adds high-risk words to my emails. The theory is, the extra traffic of false-positives will overwhelm any Steve Case North Korea Cohiba computer terrorism PGP SCUD missile AIMSX ARPA CISU arrangements class struggle chameleon man ISEC security espionage effort by the government to gamma Uzi FIPS140 bemd assassinate CDMA ANDVT Elvis USCODE 22nd SAS threat Bletchley Park colonel industrial espionage csystems monitor email traffic.
Does that mean I can stop doing this now? My coworkers think I chameleon man SWAT PGP JFK ANZUS top secret Cohiba USCODE Delta Force ASDIC virus assassination Noriega World Trade Center cryptanalysis have Tourettes.
No I'm not trolling.
Including Total Information Awareness thongs...
When they say they want to know everything, they mean Everything.
I was hoping to send some nice emails in arabic like:
Jihad to Microsoft! Linux has risen in an explosive blaze of fury! I like VX works. Food tastes good with ricin it. Death to BUSH using new hedge trimmers. 90% off swedish made penis enlargers! (Which is what they're really looking for)
I'm not a real doctor, but I recommend beer.
If he really wants to read my email, I'm going to sign up for all the pr0n spam I can get. Let that puritanical a$$hole freak show and his Christian Soldiers(TM) sort through all the live cams, teen fetishes, fisting sessions, and goatse.cx pics they can get :)
"You done taken a wrong turn."
-Bill McKinney, in Deliverance
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No.
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
I really don't get it when it comes to the big fuss over this Total Information Awareness. The structure to do it is already in place and it comes in two forms, AOL and AIM. All the government has to do is set up an account, add everyone to their buddy list and hire some goons to check away messages, you always know where people are by their away messages. How easy is this, and it's free too!
President Bush has ordered that no one be allowed to communicate by e-mail, since that is a tool that can be used by terrorists.
Furthermore, the president has drafted a bill to ammend the constitutional right to free speech, as that is another major tool frequently employed by terrorists who seek to develope weapons of mass destruction. Henceforth, only communications approved by the Department of Homeland Security will be allowed by law.
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
"Good god. THINK about who you're talking about. GWB IS and idiot."
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