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NSA (partially) Declassified
Lally Singh writes "Posted yesterday on the National Security Archives was the NSA's "Transition 2001" report, prepared as an introductory report for President Bush (II)'s incoming administration. "The largest U.S. spy agency warned the incoming Bush administration in its 'Transition 2001' report that the Information Age required rethinking the policies and authorities that kept the National Security Agency in compliance with the Constitution's 4th Amendment prohibition on 'unreasonable searches and seizures' without warrant and 'probable cause,' according to an updated briefing book of declassified NSA documents posted today on the World Wide Web.""
Crush,
Do you think that the USA has dangerous external enemies or not? We have the CIA and the NSA because we do have enemies abroad. Look at Iran. I agree that the CIA and NSA have gone overboard in the past but we should work to vigilantly curb their abuses and improve them rather than to pretend that we are not threatened by dangerous enemy states and organizations.
Where are the google links to the americans body parts being dragged through streets and hung upside down from overpasses? Oh thats right we want to create the illusion that these two soldiers are the norm and that american soldiers are being ordered to do this daily. If I was a soldier there and someone was laughing about blowing up cafe's full of children promising he will one day do it again, you know I might just beat him to death too, on accident of course I might get carried away after kicking him in the head about 4 times. But thats me acting with emotion and hatred for the enemy. Its not an order. Humans are humans lets not pretend they can not lose control. If you want to compare this to nazism I highly suggest reading up on history. Two soldiers being beat to death by other soldiers is hardly close to nazi attrocities.
-- "of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
hmm, I think you missed something. The scientist guy had figured out the math needed to factor large polynomials and thus break pretty much anybody's encryption. The movie would have been pretty boring if the math had been on a peice of paper, and the plot would have been spoiled because they could have made a photocopy of it. So instead, he supposedly programmed it into a chip. The movie wasn't about the chip, or the box it was in. The movie was about the math.
But no such math exists. It's typical fuckin' movie magic. It's as believeable as FLUBBER for gods sake. It's magic math in a box-- a magic box!
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