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  • How can we protect against non-gov taps?

    Amazingly, most posters are apparently unaware how vulnerable they are, regardless of laws regulating NSA. First of all, virtually every nation in the world EXCEPT us can tap overseas calls originating in the US without ANY judicial oversight. There is no enforced international law assuring the privacy of communications. Second, all your calls ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by SlaterBait on August 30, 2007

  • Yippeee! we can solve our oil problem !! and maybe even erase the federal deficit !!

    It is very reassuring that quite a few of even the liberal / libertarian commentators are ready to embrace the assumption that tapping into foreign-foreign communications is ok, and that the problem is only when foreign-domestic / foreign-citizen communications are tapped. Now that the Protect America Act has been passed and signed into law, I ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by muduka on August 29, 2007

  • Use against political opponents

    The line of questioning that seems to provoke the strongest defensive reaction and gets cut off as rapidly as possible is the one that would eventually lead to the question of whether any of this surveillance (data mining in particular) has been used by any political figures to surveil their political opponents (whether inside or outside an ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by sphealey on August 28, 2007

  • Data mining is a dangerous form of surveillance

    Unfortunately, I sense some dangerous ambivalence in Kaplan's ''Spy surge,'' an ambivalence that appears to normalize data mining and some data mining practices that are severely flawed. Kaplan qualifies his general acceptance of data mining by saying that lawful procedures should be followed, but then proceeds to demonstrate how data mining has ...
    Posted to War Stories by beatsleepless on July 20, 2007