Subject: RE: Privacy Moves to the Top of Legislative Agenda

Oh, they're worried about privacy? Then why, pray tell, aren't we
seeing a great uproar over the recently revealed Echelon
automated globalsurveillance project?

Margaret Newsham, one of the principal architects, noted: "As early
as 1979 we could track a specific person and zoom in on his phone
conversation while he was communicating. Since our satellites could
in 1984 film a postage stamp lying on the ground, it is almost
impossible to imagine how all-encompassing the system must be
today." Those "NSA line eater" proponents weren't such crazy
conspiracy theorists after all. So now that you know the biggest
nation-states in the world are doing the equivalent of "tcpdump |
grep" on any telephone, telex, telefax OR email that they feel
like...whatcha gonna do about it?

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