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The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool?
Wired News is reporting that the equipment found in the "secret" NSA room at AT&T wasn't some elaborate device designed by Big Brother. Rather, it is a commercially available network-analysis product that any company could acquire. From the article: "'Anything that comes through (an IP network), we can record,' says Steve Bannerman, marketing vice president of Narus, a Mountain View, California, company. 'We can reconstruct all of their e-mails along with attachments, see what web pages they clicked on, we can reconstruct their VOIP calls.'"
Like people in politics I call because I disagree with their politicies, or calls to an abortion clinic for a friend of mine who's husband is abusive and says he'll kill her if she calls the clinic, or to a reporter because my place of work is doing illegal things (note for the clueless: the former might or might not be true, but they are examples of why people might not want the government tracking calls) - the list goes on. So I don't want the government snooping in on, especially when there's no guaruntee that Joe Politician can't look in and try and use that data against me or my family or the very government system itself.
That happens to be one of the MOST ELOQUENT reasons I have EVER read on why EVERYONE has something to hide!
JEsus Motherfucking CHRIST!
I tell you, some of you folks with mod points are REAL ASSHOLES! and should fucking get out more and just get a fucking life! The world doesn't fucking revolve around APPLE, GPL, and Linux....FUCKERS!
So, all of those folks emailing around .doc files instead of pdfs and text are helping preserve our freedoms by making more bits for these guys to sift through and parse?
Yeah! Kill his child! That'll teach him! The sins of the father should fall on the child. He or she deserves to die.
It is always true in any case. With each inch we give up they'll take a mile. Haven't you noticed the trend? It's just one thing after another. Quite frankly I'm not afraid of any terrorists but our own government. What with all the scandals, lies, propaganda, secrets, renditions, concentration camps, wiretapping, crowd control devices... who the hell else can match that? A friggen terrorist is nothing in comparison.
As a side note, I don't believe the 'terrorism' was real. At least it wasn't real in the sense that anyone in power on 9/11 at least knew it was coming and directly enabled it to happen.
You're nothing; like me.