Re: Who on funsec is in the "Main Core" database?

["Dennis Henderson" <hendomatic () gmail com>]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:13 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 May 2008 22:37:24 CDT, Gadi Evron said:
>
> > That's the "lovely" thing about living in Israel, the security services
> > are too preoccupied with trying to prevent the next terrorist attack to
> > remotely care about us security hacktivists.
>
> See, that's the big difference - *your* security forces are actually
> working
> on preventing the *next* attack.  Ours are busy playing security theatre
> with making it look like they're Doing Something to prevent the *last*
> attack.
>
> And since it seems impossible that DHS and TSA and friends can be *so*
> disfunctional, even by the Mongolian Flustercluck standards of the Bush
> administration, the only obvious explanation is that they're not for
> security,
> they're for distracting us from things like Main Core.
>
> (Think about it - if the Bush administration was as incompetent as they
> look, how far would something like Main Core have gotten?)
Pretty ignorant statement, even by your standards.

The israelis know what their threats are and they take the steps necessary.
Even israel is feeling the political pressure these days and is succumbing
to the "collateral damage" bs that the media seems to care more about.

In the US, anything considered "taking action " or "necessary" violates some
civil or constitutional right or is leaked out by some "conscientious
objector". It would seem some organizations care more about keeping their
phone calls private than allowing the government to do its one
constitutionally mandated function; Protecting us from all enemies, foreign
and domestic.


I cant imagine a more different set of scenarios..

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