[info] Intelligence Official: Say Goodbye To Privacy

[Samantha Atkins]

Encrypt everything.  Let them eat bits.  Invest in quantum computer  
stock when the snoops started buying them like hot cakes to get past  
the encryption.  This is a war.  If you want to keep the right to be  
left alone and not have your mind and effects riffled through then you  
must take action to prevent it.  The goons in power will not protect  
you.  Do not for a minute imagine that the same creatures who demand  
records from librarians and charge them with a felony if they even  
mention it give a rat's ass about your rights or freedom.  They very  
obviously do not.  Act accordingly.

- s

On Nov 12, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>  
> -----
>
> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:54:22 -0500
> To: Philodox Clips List <clips at philodox.com>, dgcchat at dgcchat.com,
> 	cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
> Subject: Intelligence Official: Say Goodbye To Privacy
>
>> Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal
>> deputy director of national intelligence.
>
> Anonymity is a fundamental human right.
>
> Cheers,
> RAH
> --------
>
> <http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071111/D8SRJ1DO0.html>
>
>
> My Way News
>
>
> Intel Official: Say Goodbye to Privacy
>
> Nov 11, 11:39 AM (ET)
>
> By PAMELA HESS
>
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) - A top intelligence official says it is time people  
> in the
> United States changed their definition of privacy.
>
> Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal
> deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that
> government and businesses properly safeguards people's private
> communications and financial information.
>
> Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the  
> Foreign
> Surveillance Intelligence Act.
>
> Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the  
> government
> to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so  
> long as
> one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located  
> outside
> the U.S.
>
> The original law required a court order for any surveillance  
> conducted on
> U.S. soil, to protect Americans' privacy. The White House argued  
> that the
> law was obstructing intelligence gathering.
>
> The most contentious issue in the new legislation is whether to shield
> telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly  
> giving the
> government access to people's private e-mails and phone calls  
> without a
> court order between 2001 and 2007.
>
> Some lawmakers, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee,  
> appear
> reluctant to grant immunity. Suits might be the only way to  
> determine how
> far the government has burrowed into people's privacy without court
> permission.
>
> The committee is expected to decide this week whether its version of  
> the
> bill will protect telecommunications companies.
>
> The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the
> government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as  
> they pass
> through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco.
>
> Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect a device in  
> 2003 that
> he says diverted and copied onto a government supercomputer every  
> call,
> e-mail, and Internet site access on AT&T lines.
>
>
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> experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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