From: Bodie (mclarkc@essex.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 03:11:04 MST
Yeh, but any taps must be justified, at the moment the snooping services
are looking at EVERYONES email and stuff, there can be no justification
for that. While some snooping on criminal gangs is maybe ok, snooping on
some old lady trying to arrange a shopping trip is not, it's a pure
invasion of privicy and wrong
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Violet Beck wrote:
> On the matter of Lantern: As many wonderful things that there are which can
> go wrong with this project, it doesn't fail to creep me out. The FBI in
> general, not even disregarding the good they do this country, creeps me out.
> I guess there are many things in a country that simply NEED to be kept
> secret, and though I intellectually understand this it it just gives me a
> nasty feeling. Going through my computer files without telling me, eh?
>
> <blunderov>
> (I think that, given a sample of a given keyboard, it might even be possible
> to determine keystrokes acoustically; ever notice how the space bar sounds
> different to the others?)
>
> <violet>
> *taps incessantly on keyboard* LOOK! it does... and the shift key sounds
> slightly different from the enter key...
>
> <blunderov>
> To conclude: Dear Violet, do not be intimidated into moderating your
> rhetoric. The administration that you are criticising demonstrates no such
> restraint (\War on terror\, \axis of evil\, \you are with us or against us\
> and ad nauseum) so why should you?
>
> <violet>
> Thank you. I guess I could set a good example and refrain from badmouthing
> the Shrub Administration, but that's so very preschool-esque in it's view on
> morality.
>
> Cheers, Violet
>
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