Re: NSA enhancing Linux security?

From: Bill Laut (wlgen_at_verizon.net)
Date: 02/28/04

  • Next message: Jem Berkes: "Re: NSA enhancing Linux security?" 
    Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:45:03 GMT

    Paul wrote:

    >
    > If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about.
    >

    You mean like Joe Salvati? Back in the 60s the FBI perjured itself under
    oath to wrongly convict a man they knew was innocent in order to protect a
    paid mob informant. Salvati spent 30-odd years in prison before it was
    later proven in court that he was innocent. The judge in that case hauled
    the retired FBI district manager into his court to demand how the FBI could
    have comitted such an atrocity, to which the FBI manager said, "What do you
    want from me, tears?"

    The House Reform Committee took this up, and discovered that the FBI had
    also wrongly convicted three other men as well, two of whom died in prison.
    According to sworn testimony, the FBI was openly BOASTING of how it
    destroyed those mens' lives, and that of their families. And those are
    just the ones we know of.

    A couple years ago there was a news account of two FBI agents who were
    busted for running an "insider-trading" ring with some stockbrokers. They
    used their spying powers under the Patriot Act to snoop on certain private
    firms, which was then sold to the stockbrokers for a cut of the profits.

    You have nothing to worry about? You have much to learn.

    >
    > As for NSA recording EVERY phone call in the USA...get real, they only
    > need to capture what's important. I doubt they would waste resources doing
    > what you suggest.
    >

    And who defines "important?"

    Political interests notwithstanding, how do you determine what's "important"
    until you've actually analyzed it? Accordingly, they cannot afford to let
    ANYTHING slip past them, hence the need to capture everything.

    >
    > I sleep good at night knowing the NSA, CIA FBI are doing
    > all they can....
    >

    "All they can..." What? 

    -- 
Bill Laut
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