Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 20, 2006 @07:48PM from the tomorrow-comes-today dept.

krygny writes "In this week's The Pulpit, Robert X. Cringely presents some interesting factoids he uncovered in his research into the NSA's domestic surveillance. He makes no judgements but offers some interesting stuff you might not have already known." From the article: "Intercepting communications for purposes of maintaining national security is nothing new. From before Pearl Harbor through 1945, EVERY trans-Atlantic phone call, cable and indeed letter was intercepted in Bermuda by the Coordinator of Information (COI) in the White House and later by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Sir William Stephenson revealed this in his autobiography, A Man Called Intrepid. They literally tapped the undersea cables and shipped all post to Europe through Bermuda, where every single call was monitored, every cable printed out, and every letter opened. FDR and Churchill needed intelligence and they took the steps they needed to get it."

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Re:Okay... by dangitman · 2006-01-20 22:45 · Score: 1, Offtopic

First of all, you spelled "apoligised" completely wrong.
Heh. So did you. One shouldn't criticise someone else's spelling if one can't spell.

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Re:Okay... by jcr · 2006-01-21 00:45 · Score: 1, Offtopic

First of all, you spelled "apoligised" completely wrong.

So did you.

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