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Senate Proposes Patriot Act Extension
geekylinuxkid writes "Senate leaders reached a bipartisan agreement Wednesday night to extend expiring and controversial provisions of the Patriot Act for six months. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Republican from Tennessee, announced the agreement from the Senate floor, ending an impasse over the measure." From the article: "Last week, the House voted 251-174 to renew the 16 provisions after striking a compromise that altered some of them. The provisions were set to expire at year's end if not renewed. Controversial measures include those allowing the FBI -- with a court order -- to obtain secret warrants for business, library, medical and other records, and to get a wiretap on every phone a suspect uses." More commentary on the BBC. We reported on last week's failure of the original renewal.
Natasha, you imbecile... do not transmit over dis channel... vee have to get the moose.... Anyone that's dialed around a shortwave dial has heard the CIA number codes being transmited... One time pad is not that hard to implement in a computer program, and disguise the resulting data in BINHXQ output or hide it in a JPG... why post it plain text ascii... This is a riddle someone has put up... to your caclulators, men!
I agree with the internet being more ubiquitous and more mainstream. But I wouldn't post numbers messages. Instead, I'd embed the messages as static in images - almost like watermarking - maybe posted to usenet. That way, it's easy to send & recieve, and most people wouldn't even notice that there's messages in the images.
See here. The trolls may, in fact, be encrypted messages... or may just be random numbers. Or maybe someone's using Slashdot for their drug deals; I dunno, I don't work for the NSA. Feel free to try and get CmdrTaco drunk enough to talk about whether he's gotten a national security letter over it the next time you see him.
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.