Make no mistake... Anything you do electronically, they know about...
i've said it before and i'll say it again... whatever you do electronically - credit card transactions, instant messaging, telephone calls, email, voip, anything that requires any transmission of any kind of data whatsoever - is being routed through extraordinarily sophisticated and immensely powerful computers programmed to assemble otherwise random patterns of information into profiles and to sniff out specific elements that fit pre-determined word, phrase, or digital strings... don't SUSPECT it's happening... don't THINK it's happening... ASSUME it's happening...
assuming it's happening is certainly not the same thing as ACCEPTING the fact that it's happening... but, by the same token, don't be naive and think that it isn't...
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"The network sniffer with the right software can capture anything," the former network technician said. "You can get people's e-mail, VoIP phone calls, [calls made over the Internet] -- even passwords and credit card transactions -- as long as you have the right software to decrypt that."
In theory, surveillance involving Internet communications can be executed legally under federal law. "But with most of these things," Farber said, "the problem is that it just takes one small step to make it illegal."
assuming it's happening is certainly not the same thing as ACCEPTING the fact that it's happening... but, by the same token, don't be naive and think that it isn't...
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posted by profmarcus at
6/20/2006
