Re: What is John McCain's position on Internet Surveillance?

[Chris Blask <chris () blask org>]

"What is John McCain's position on Internet Surveillance?"

A/ Implanted rectal recording devices with remote self-destruct mechanisms

or

B/ Internet?

-chris


--- On Wed, 7/16/08, Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:

> From: Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com>
> Subject: [funsec] What is John McCain's position on Internet Surveillance?
> To: "'funsec'" <funsec () linuxbox org>
> Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 11:07 AM
> McCain Campaign Uses Online Spider To Ambush Obama
> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/mccain-campaign.html
>
> The politicos' mutual stalking has reached
> unprecedented new levels this
> year: At least one side has started to spider the
> other's campaign web site
> to track that campaign pages' precise word changes up
> to an hourly
> basis.Mccain_obama_versionaista
>
> John McCain's campaign published a side-by-side
> comparison of Barack Obama's
> Iraq War policy web pages on Tuesday using a new automated
> online tracking
> service called Versionista.
>
> The service, which launched two months ago, allows users to
> track and cache
> changes to specific web pages up to an hourly basis,
> depending on the level
> of filtering requested, says Peter Bray, its creator in
> Portland, Oregon.
>
> "I'm an avid reader of blogs, so I thought this
> would be a good tool for
> campaigns and activists," he says. "This could be
> a good tool in their
> arsenal. "
>
> Bray says that he got the idea from Wikipedia, which shows
> people the
> changes made to its entries. Versionista is a subscription
> service and
> allows people to track minute, detailed changes on web
> sites.
>
> ...
>
>
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