I read about NSA's responsibility in the Book "The Puzzle Palace" by James Bamford (A Tip from a former/.-Article;) and it said that there is a law (from the sixties AFAIK) that states that the NSA doesn't need to reveal anything about it's activities. A cite: "...NSA is able to virtually deny it's own existance..." That is somewhere at the beginning of the book (first 200 pages) and I'm telling from memory. I might be able to find the page if somebody's interested... But not now....;) ciao Georg
The c't-magazine http://www.heise.de claimed sort of the discovery in issue 23 from friday. They' ve also got a statement from real. I cannot find it online, but it sounded like real wanted to remove it. Real couldn' t say if they saved e-mail information and other "identifiers" with the GUID, but they pointed more than once to their privacy-statment. georg
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I read about NSA's responsibility in the Book "The Puzzle Palace" by James Bamford (A Tip from a former /.-Article;) and it said that there is a law (from the sixties AFAIK) that states that the NSA doesn't need to reveal anything about it's activities. A cite: "...NSA is able to virtually deny it's own existance..." ;)
That is somewhere at the beginning of the book (first 200 pages) and I'm telling from memory. I might be able to find the page if somebody's interested...
But not now....
ciao Georg
The c't-magazine http://www.heise.de claimed sort of the discovery in issue 23 from friday. They' ve also got a statement from real. I cannot find it online, but it sounded like real wanted to remove it.
Real couldn' t say if they saved e-mail information and other "identifiers" with the GUID, but they pointed more than once to their privacy-statment.
georg