Random thoughts, quotes and links
Quote:
If you want to get even with someone, make sure it’s someone who’s done something nice for you.
Thought One:
The more I read about the NSA eavesdropping thing, the more it seems like a colossal data mining operation. Question: Is it actually wiretapping if no one listens (or reads) and communication? Does the fact that someone notes that a call or email takes place constitute an surveillance?
Thought Two:
Am I the only one who thought that the govenrment was doing this already?
Links:
- Clinton claimed roughly the same authority to wiretap.
- Bruce Shneier has a lot of history about eavesdropping.
- Wired’s page on domestic data mining projects.
- More PlameGate
- Always Be Cobbling (everyone check this one out, it’s the opening scene from Glengary Glen Ross, but with elves.
One Comment
missyyall
You’re right. I thought they were already doing this stuff and had files on everyone, some just larger than others. If I can look at a satellite image of my house and do an internet search of the criminal backgrounds of a co-worker, you can’t tell me that the government isn’t doing the same thing. They just got caught at it.