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Cringely On Electronic Tapping
sckienle writes "Robert X. Cringely, the PBS one, has an editorial discussing electronic wire-tapping and the Big Brother concerns. There isn't any new information in the article, but he does a nice summation of the state of law enforcement today. This may be a good article to show your family, friends and congressmen."
Verizon Guy: Can you hear me NOW?
FBI Spook: Yep!
Verizon Guy: urk...
"There isn't any new information in the article"
;P
I'm glad Slashdot is sticking to the established traditions
Banaaaana!
I'll have to do that quickly. They get suspecious if I turn off the Telescre^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFreedomScreens or the PatriotSpeaker off for more than 30 minutes.
Unless you are a criminal, you have nothing to hide and thus nothing to fear from the goverment.
I'd post an irate comment, but my monitor, phone, desk, chair and keyboard are listening to me.
Die monitor die
As long as the government can't control what we think...
Or... at least I've already been taught/brainwashed to believe they can't control what we think.
Control is a philosophy, and it can take many forms.
The NSA has already read it. Thanks anyway.
The government doesn't control what we think. No, not all. That's not propaganda you hear on the media, it's the truth. The media would never be used to propagate government lies. Nope. Never.
My journal has hot
Oh wait...I was supposed to read the WHOLE thing?
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
But slashdot will post 2-3 stories about it anyway.
sulli
RTFJ.
From the article:
"They can listen to what you say while you think you are on hold. This is scary stuff."
Televoice: Your call is important to us. Thank you for waiting. The next available assistant will be with you shortly.
Me: G****mit! What the fsck is taking so d@mn long?
Gummint: Sir, we'll be there in 20 minutes to wash your mouth out with soap.
Why precisely is it scary that they can hear you on hold compared to other times? I'd think it would be painfully obvious that they can hear ANYTHING you say into an open connection.
Actually, what's really scary is there's nothing that says The Man couldn't activate the mic on your cell phone remotely, but not have it go into "call" mode, so they could just pick up everything you're saying. THAT is scary.
To "Anonymous Coward" I hear lot of people say my name every day and they do not laugh! I do not get your joke..
-- Dr. Fu Ling-Yu, Internal Technology Consult; Tongji University, People Republic of China.
"Give me Liberty or Give me Death"
Be careful what you wish for.
Of course it does...
A recent Time magazine had an interview with a woman who is a right-wing commmentator/author. Some of the more notable statements in the article:
Liberals are anti-USA.
The Democratic Party should just go away.
"In that light, yes I am defending McCarthyism."
It must be *good* to be SO certain in your views that public dissent and debate are unnecessary and unwanted.
Or is it? Personally, outside of a few carefully chosen beliefs, I *never* want to be that certain.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Verizon Guy: Can you hear me NOW?
FBI Spook: Yep!
Verizon Guy: urk...
This is a true story, I swear:
When I was in college, I knew one or two of the student sysadmins. One of the more flamboyant campus personalities(small campus) would, all the time, infer on the school newsgroups that the student sysadmins were reading other student's mail(they sysadmin'd all the non-school-administration servers). It always pissed off the student admins, because they didn't read other student's mail, and found the insinuation insulting.
One day, this jerk was emailing a friend and made some nasty comment- something along the lines of "you better call me, the student admins here are always reading our email". Somewhere along the line, either he, or the friend, mistyped the email address- and a bounce of the message went to postmaster.
The student admin grinned ear to ear and said "so I sent a reply to them both that just said, 'No we don't.'"
Please help metamoderate.
Cringely gets front-page billing so frequently on Slashdot that I think it's time he got his own icon.
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