Re: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW.. DEAD ON FOR SECURITY

[Bill_Royds () pch gc ca]

Very true.
The U.S. NSA never intercepts American traffic, they let the Canadians do 
that.
And the Canadian CSE never intercepts Canadian traffic, they let the NSA 
do that.
Then the laws in both countries are followed to the letter, but they get 
the intelligence anyway.
That was the whole reason for the NATO Echelon project.

In actual fact, neither agency monitors indiscriminately. They only 
monitor traffic that has intelligence significance so they are making the 
haystack a lot smaller to search through. They still need to search 
through a lot of traffic to get the needle.

Bill Royds
Acting System Administrator,
Canadian Heritage Information Network
(819) 994-1200 X 239





Brad Van Orden <Brad.VanOrden () navius com>
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Norm McLeod wrote:
> precludes PGP. I personally have stopped using PGP, since the 9-11
> incident, so the NSA has less to do. I expect they capture virtually all
> PGP encrypted email, and give it the once over. Whereas, the Microsoft

This paranoia has got to stop.  My last active duty station was at NSA.
I can tell you they do not intercept any electro-magnetic traffic in the
USA.  In addition, when decoding intercepted transmissions overseas, if
it is discovered that a US citizen originated the traffic, they must
stop working on it.  This is US law and it is rigidly adhered to. 

I would be more concerned with others intercepting my e-mail than the
NSA.

Regards,

Brad Van Orden
Navius Technologies
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