But you can compare this to a phone conversation, which does require an explicit warrant to monitor. How does E-mail differ from a phone conversation?
In most cases, not by much, right? Both phone and e-mail (when through dial-up connections) are just transmissions of sound over a phone line.
Since the USPS is going to give each citizen a free web-based email account (see CNN), then can Carnivore tap that email? And how can you stop it from intercepting USPS email if it reads all of it in the first place?
I doubt the USPS would route its' e-mail ONLY through its' own servers. At some point or another, it would touch an Earthlink, AOL, etc. server. If they were using Carnivore, guess what? Your message just got logged even though the USPS wasn't monitoring. Additionally, I highly doubt that the USPS would gain any preferential treatment over other e-mail services. Physical and electronic mail are very different.
Let's just say that there's a scenario where the FBI has a warrant to search the e-mail of Fred Kazyncski because he is a suspect in a federal case. Let's also say that the FBI is being honest and didn't have Carnivore installed until the judge granted this warrant. Now, the FBI goes over to Earthlink, whoever, and starts up Carnivore on that network. Not only is Fred being monitored, so is every other local Earthlink user. And because Carnivore is looking at both incoming and outgoing traffic, any mail which gets routed through this Earthlink machine is being monitored as well. Supposing the FBI logged all messages (they couldn't know who might be talking to Fred, after all), they suddenly have a wealth of information. And hey, an unrelated (to this case) message went through there, from Muhammed to Chang about the Korean and Iraqi biological warfare programs. Now, the FBI being what it is (suspicious), these two are then monitored on their Mindspring and Netcom servers. Wow, we're quickly approaching total coverage of the US. This is why the monitoring solutions must be implemented by the ISPs and be specific to single users.
Great! Now I can use my Linux box to run a DOS emulator. Then I'll run Win 3.1 on that... And load up a mac emulator. So then I can play Nintendo games with my NES emulator that only runs on OS8. Finally...
Actually, they are a part of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. This means they fall under the president's direct control along with the FBI, Secret Service, and other government agencies.
Does this mean that if I'm accessing material over the internet, and data goes through a server in the U.K., then they can legally monitor anything I sent, and demand data from the ISP whose servers it traveled through? Or if I encode something and send it to someone in the U.K. then they could legally be forced to turn over the key? This bill (and Carnivore) have serious implications for international law.
Is there anyone here who can write (for a recognition system) as fast as they can type? I doubt it - I can't even write in my normal sloppy script as quickly as I type. This idea seems cool at first but really sucks. One good product Wacom makes can be seen here: Graphire 2. This pen and mouse combo seems pretty decent - a wireless mouse and a pen input tablet all in one. Don't worry about that mouse; it communicates with the pad somehow.
What does the NSA think about the current civilian projects using distributed computing to attempt to decrypt high-level encryption? Does the NSA consider the possibility of other nations using similar distributed computing farms to decrypt encoded US traffic a possible threat or is the encryption used by the NSA just too plain strong?
What does Cisco have to do with handhelds at all? The original Pilot was produced by US Robotics, which was bought by 3Com, and then Palm was spun off from 3Com.:)
As for the "Fords outsell Volkswagens after all", apparently you think Ford's marketing is more expensive than Volkswagen's? Or maybe it's that Ford sells more types of cars perhaps? (Compare those two sites, by the way, I think you'll agree which was probably a bigger design challenge.)
Have you by any chance ever seen the movie GATTACA with Ethan Hunt and Uma Thurman? One might be worried about the possibilities of a dystopian future similar to Huxley's "Brave New World" or similar stories; but one could also see a future where no one has any disability or genetic disorder. The issue is Therapy versus Enhancement. We can use the knowledge provided by a genetic map and knowledge of cell patterns to provide a blind child with new retinas, or an old man with a new kidney. Or we may use this knowledge to make every child a superhuman with the genius of Einstein, the body of John Elway (obviously there are different examples for females), and the creativity of Van Gogh (without the tendency for ear-chopping.) The problem is when this line between therapy and enhancement becomes blurred. Is it therapy or enhancement to provide someone with less-than-stellar vision (but not blind) near-bionic eyes when they could have their vision corrected by contact lenses or glasses? This issue may seem obvious to some, but there are several other issues you can think of if you put your mind to it. While we have just gone through a digital revolution, we are about to undergo a biological revolution. The problem is the ethics of biology are much less clear-cut than the ethics of technology.
Well, everybody's favorite ISP without the Service, AOL, has shut down a few sites in its' time, or caused them to be shut down - one recently is CLHQ.com. It used to be an excellent site about some of the problems with AOL's Community Leader programs and then it turned into a redirect to AOL.com. Wonder who did that?
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In most cases, not by much, right? Both phone and e-mail (when through dial-up connections) are just transmissions of sound over a phone line.
Since the USPS is going to give each citizen a free web-based email account (see CNN), then can Carnivore tap that email? And how can you stop it from intercepting USPS email if it reads all of it in the first place?
I doubt the USPS would route its' e-mail ONLY through its' own servers. At some point or another, it would touch an Earthlink, AOL, etc. server. If they were using Carnivore, guess what? Your message just got logged even though the USPS wasn't monitoring. Additionally, I highly doubt that the USPS would gain any preferential treatment over other e-mail services. Physical and electronic mail are very different.
Let's just say that there's a scenario where the FBI has a warrant to search the e-mail of Fred Kazyncski because he is a suspect in a federal case. Let's also say that the FBI is being honest and didn't have Carnivore installed until the judge granted this warrant. Now, the FBI goes over to Earthlink, whoever, and starts up Carnivore on that network. Not only is Fred being monitored, so is every other local Earthlink user. And because Carnivore is looking at both incoming and outgoing traffic, any mail which gets routed through this Earthlink machine is being monitored as well. Supposing the FBI logged all messages (they couldn't know who might be talking to Fred, after all), they suddenly have a wealth of information. And hey, an unrelated (to this case) message went through there, from Muhammed to Chang about the Korean and Iraqi biological warfare programs. Now, the FBI being what it is (suspicious), these two are then monitored on their Mindspring and Netcom servers. Wow, we're quickly approaching total coverage of the US. This is why the monitoring solutions must be implemented by the ISPs and be specific to single users.
Great! Now I can use my Linux box to run a DOS emulator. Then I'll run Win 3.1 on that... And load up a mac emulator. So then I can play Nintendo games with my NES emulator that only runs on OS8. Finally...
Actually, they are a part of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. This means they fall under the president's direct control along with the FBI, Secret Service, and other government agencies.
Slashdot most likely breaks words longer than a specified length into two words by adding a space. The A HREF= tag was probably pretty long.
Does this mean that if I'm accessing material over the internet, and data goes through a server in the U.K., then they can legally monitor anything I sent, and demand data from the ISP whose servers it traveled through? Or if I encode something and send it to someone in the U.K. then they could legally be forced to turn over the key? This bill (and Carnivore) have serious implications for international law.
Is there anyone here who can write (for a recognition system) as fast as they can type? I doubt it - I can't even write in my normal sloppy script as quickly as I type. This idea seems cool at first but really sucks.
One good product Wacom makes can be seen here: Graphire 2. This pen and mouse combo seems pretty decent - a wireless mouse and a pen input tablet all in one. Don't worry about that mouse; it communicates with the pad somehow.
What does the NSA think about the current civilian projects using distributed computing to attempt to decrypt high-level encryption? Does the NSA consider the possibility of other nations using similar distributed computing farms to decrypt encoded US traffic a possible threat or is the encryption used by the NSA just too plain strong?
What does Cisco have to do with handhelds at all? The original Pilot was produced by US Robotics, which was bought by 3Com, and then Palm was spun off from 3Com. :)
As for the "Fords outsell Volkswagens after all", apparently you think Ford's marketing is more expensive than Volkswagen's? Or maybe it's that Ford sells more types of cars perhaps? (Compare those two sites, by the way, I think you'll agree which was probably a bigger design challenge.)
Have you by any chance ever seen the movie GATTACA with Ethan Hunt and Uma Thurman? One might be worried about the possibilities of a dystopian future similar to Huxley's "Brave New World" or similar stories; but one could also see a future where no one has any disability or genetic disorder. The issue is Therapy versus Enhancement. We can use the knowledge provided by a genetic map and knowledge of cell patterns to provide a blind child with new retinas, or an old man with a new kidney. Or we may use this knowledge to make every child a superhuman with the genius of Einstein, the body of John Elway (obviously there are different examples for females), and the creativity of Van Gogh (without the tendency for ear-chopping.) The problem is when this line between therapy and enhancement becomes blurred. Is it therapy or enhancement to provide someone with less-than-stellar vision (but not blind) near-bionic eyes when they could have their vision corrected by contact lenses or glasses? This issue may seem obvious to some, but there are several other issues you can think of if you put your mind to it. While we have just gone through a digital revolution, we are about to undergo a biological revolution. The problem is the ethics of biology are much less clear-cut than the ethics of technology.
Well, everybody's favorite ISP without the Service, AOL, has shut down a few sites in its' time, or caused them to be shut down - one recently is CLHQ.com. It used to be an excellent site about some of the problems with AOL's Community Leader programs and then it turned into a redirect to AOL.com. Wonder who did that?