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1 total messages Started by Karen Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:54
open letter to free.fr.rec.sport.football.moderated readers
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Author: Karen
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:54
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" even to local police departments.

[ Yea billions of dollars a year military SIGINT support technology...
  oh so invisible in its great mass.

  A total blurring of the lines between Military
  and civilian control of the domestic population.
]


P475-477: Like an ever-widening sinkhole, the NSA's surveillance technology
will continue to expand, quietly pulling in more and more communications and
gradually eliminating more and more privacy.

If there are defenses to such technotyranny, it would appear, at least from
past experience, that they will not come from Congress.

Rather, they will most likely come from academe and industry in the form of
secure cryptographic applications to private and commercial telecommunications
equipment.

The same technology that is used against free speech can be used
to protect it, for without protection the future may be grim.


Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee, referring
to the NSA's SIGINT technology:

    At the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around
    on the American people and no American would have any privacy left,
    such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations,
    telegrams, it doesn't matter.

    There would be no place to hide.

    If the government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge
    in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence commun-
    ity has given the government could enable it to impose total tyran


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