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Why filters won't solve the problem
Imagine that the government is clever enough that it can come up with a filter that has a 99.99% chance of tagging a non-terrorist communication as non-terrorist, and a 99.99% chance of tagging a terrorist-related communication as terrorist. I think we'd all be impressed. Further guess that as many as 1 out of 10,000 (0.01%) of all the ...
Posted to The Breakfast Table by StatNerd on August 30, 2007
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
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