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US Gov't Assisted Iranian Gov't Mobile Wiretaps

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-for-the-goose dept.

bdsesq sent in a story on Ars Technica highlighting how the US government's drive for security back doors has enabled the Iranian government to spy on its citizens. "For instance, TKTK was lambasted last year for selling telecom equipment to Iran that included the ability to wiretap mobile phones at will. Lost in that uproar was the fact that sophisticated wiretapping capabilities became standard issue for technology thanks to the US government's CALEA rules that require all phone systems, and now broadband systems, to include these capabilities."

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  1. Re:This. by b4upoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I, for one could care less if the Iranian government spies on me as long as we bomb them back beyond the stone age and turn that garbage pile into a lake.

  2. Re:Wait, what ? by BlueStrat · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's not misleading; it's the headline's purpose to get straight to the author's point, and the point is that the unintended consequence of our domestic policies has been to enable authoritarian regimes to enforce policies of their own.

    I'm not so sure it's "unintended".

    After all, President Obama endorses and co-sponsors, through Organizing For America, the upcoming 10/2 rally at the Mall in D.C. which has some very interesting official co-sponsors.

    You can find out more about the rally at the Young Communist League USA website.

    The rally is also endorsed by other freedom-loving organizations such as the New Black Panther Party, the Democratic Socialists of America, the International Socialist Organization, the War Resisters League, the SEIU, the AFL-CIO, La Raza, and the American Muslim Association of North America, whose leader Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout was fired this summer by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for his ties to Hamas and David Duke.

    Just the kind of people I'd trust to ensure freedom and justice.

    I hope that helps.

    Strat

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    Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
  3. Re:This. by blair1q · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Okay, first, that link you link is a journalist's opinion rhetorically questioning Obama's sincerity. Cry me a fishpond. Second, it's dated in 2008, before Obama was the nominee, much less the President.

    I asked for evidence that Obama is illegally wiretapping people, not evidence that people will call him a liar. Try again.