Snooping and spying is legal

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has now given its rationale for 
allowing collection of metadata from phone calls:

http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/br13-09-primary-order.pdf

(If you want it in a more readable form:
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/09/19/us-secret-court-publishes-rationale-
for-why-spying-on-everybody-is-ok/ )

Basically, it seems to boil down to the fact that if you tell anybody anything, it's 
fair game.  If you make a phone call, you tell the phone company.  If you send 
email, of course, you tell dozens of routers and MTAs.  (If you write a lteer, you 
tell the piece of paper.)

So, anything you tell anyone is open for surveillance.  The only way to keep a 
secret safe is to keep it in your head.  (Unless you have multiple personalities, in 
which case the government has the right to scan your brain.)

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needlessly complex and frilly, looks good without actually
covering much and is far too easy to get around or remove
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