[ale] Well isn't this special

[Lightner, Jeff]

One of the most disgusting things the Democratic Congress did after all
their talk about Dubya and his shenanigans was to actually pass a law
allowing for the illegal wiretapping done by the phone companies to be
legal in the future AND to prevent them from being prosecuted for what
they had already done.

For years when I worked in telecom the FCC and Justice were requiring
all new phone systems to allow for monitoring.   This is simply an
extension of that.  

Since the courts have said you can't sue unless you can prove you were
specifically being spied upon and the also allowing the government to
hide who it is spying on there isn't much we can do about this.   It
really requires enough people to be outraged to the point of actually
demonstrating in the street over this but that's not going to happen.
The sheeple think the government has their best interests at heart.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Derek Atkins
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:57 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Well isn't this special

"Watson, Keith" <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> writes:

> At first I thought it was a hoax or April Fools joke. It's not.
>
> Government Seeks Back Door Into All Our Communications
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/government-seeks
>
> U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet
> https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html

Nope, not a joke or a hoax.  It's 1993 all over again.  Remember the
Clinton-era "Clipper Chip" initiative?  This is pretty much the same
construct with different icing.

We successfully staved off that initiative last time; it's going to be
harder this time with all the fear people have been fed for the past
decade.

> keith

-derek

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