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Re: [privacy] Fwd: Verizon Won't Give Government 'Unfettered' Record A ccess
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 01:00:43 GMT
So let's see here -- you don't believe in freedom of the press? And you don't believe in whistleblower protections when a possible criminal act has been reported? Hmmm... - ferg -- "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com> wrote: Oye, a journalist's blog... oh well, bound to happen. If they are receiving secret information they should expect to be investigated. This in no way means they're a part of the data collection we've been discussing since that has always been portrayed as wholesale...logging (for a lack of a better word) - NOT targeted monitoring of specific people's phone usage. If they are being investigated then monitoring of their phone calls can be done legally, and easily. Again, *I* don't like that it can be done "legally", but that's been the case for as long as the drug war has been going on. And it really pisses me off that they can ask for my "papers" at a "NARC Check" - and arrest me if I refuse! On 5/15/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
On Mon, 15 May 2006 14:58:26 CDT, you said:Do you have a story to back that up? The stories being printed now have absolutely no effect on the establishment, I can not see why they'd jeopardize this by actually targeting journalists.What variety of executive-branch hubris explains this? http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federal_source_.html
-- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- Re: [privacy] Fwd: Verizon Won't Give Government 'Unfettered' Record A ccess Fergie (May 16)
- Re: [privacy] Fwd: Verizon Won't Give Government 'Unfettered' Record Access Kevin McAleavey (May 16)
- Re: [privacy] Fwd: Verizon Won't Give Government 'Unfettered' Record Access Stephen Villano (May 16)
- Re: [privacy] Fwd: Verizon Won't Give Government 'Unfettered' Record A ccess Brian Loe (May 16)
- Re: [privacy] Fwd: Verizon Won't Give Government 'Unfettered' Record Access Kevin McAleavey (May 16)