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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
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- Subject: Re: Boycotting CERT because of the keystroke monitoring advisory?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.204759.16042@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:47:59 GMT
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- In article <matt-070193085339@wardmac2.med.yale.edu> matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu (Matt Healy) writes:
- >Oh lord, what a horrid possibilty--the electronic equivalent
- >of urine testing!
- But much easier to fight. Read on.
-
- >PS: Now that I have posted this message those keywords will
- >turn up in connection with *my* name! I hope this doesn't
- >trigger a dossier on me! If you think I'm being paranoid, read
- >Bamford's {The Puzzle Palace} about some of the things NSA has
- >done in the past with keyword searching and "watch lists" of
- >trigger words! Just for completeness I'll add a few more
- >keywords: CIA DIA MI5 MI6 NRO KEYHOLE GCHQ KGB (do they still
- >operate?).
- Probably the NSA does such things. The have very powerful
- computers and very idle hands just now. Hopefully they
- will be consigned to the ash-heap of history along with their
- erstwhile friends the KGB BUT should that not happen they are
- unlikely to use any information they get in any but most
- serious of cases. Why? For the same reason that the Brits
- let the Germans bomb Coventry. If they go after people they
- run the risk of showing their hand. You have to save such a
- system for something really important. Nickle and dime drug
- users are not worth the effort. Besides, if busting people
- for words became commonplace it would be the patriotic duty
- of all loyal Americans to resist the illegal parallel government
- in every way possible. (Not that it isn't now mind you!) It would
- be the duty of all of us to put trigger words in all of our internet
- email to keep the job queues on the NSA nice and full. ;-)
-
- Do everything you can to foul up the parallel government that our
- friends in the the national security apparutus run. Our foreign
- policy is already run by these guys, don't let our domestic
- policy fall into their hands too. There is already too little
- freedom left in America.
-
-
- smg
-