On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:03 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > There's still a free version of PGP available as GnuGP. But people > generally don't want the inconvenience of dealing with encryption. > > > On 6/12/2013 3:16 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > > How to protect your computer from spying by the IRS and Eric H. Holder, Jr. > > These days it seems that you need to protect yourself from more than > commercial vendors, namely spying by the IRS and Eric H. Holder, Jr. > Snowden, the man who recently exposed the NSA activities, says he can > from his desktop listen to your telephone and read your email. > > > But it would have been illegal for him to do so. People are always able to > do illegal things. The question is what preventive measures should be > taken. Snowden was an IT tech who was just supposed to keep the system > running, so of course he had the ability to tap data flows. But there > should have been some administrative oversight to keep him from doing that > beyond what was necessary for his work (and maybe there was). > > The question is should it be legal for the government to collect this data.
It is most certainly a step towards totalitarianism. > The Supreme Court has said it's Constitutional I cannot find any evidence of such a decision. In fact, PRISM has been kept secret, for all intentes and purposes, from all of the checks and balances of democracy. This guy does a very good job of describing the situation: http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/csarchive/Show-255---The-Big-Long-Surveillance-Show/N.S.A.-security-spying > and polls say it's favor 62% > to 34% by the public, so... This poll says the opposite: http://www.gallup.com/poll/163043/americans-disapprove-government-surveillance-programs.aspx?utm_source=add_this&utm_medium=addthis.com&utm_campaign=sharing#.UbjX5rNUzns.twitter Also, it appears that a vast number of democrats that opposed this type of surveillance under Bush now approve it under Obama, so these opinions are highly tainted by partisanship. Telmo. > Brent > > > To do so, at least to a partial extent, start here: > > 1.) See this link: > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383203092034876.html > > 2.) Switch your default browser to Mozilla Firefox, as most of the free > add-ons only works on it. > > 3.) Download and install the freeware Firefox add-on from > > http://www.privacychoice.org/trackerblock/update > > This so far from a cursory search has not blocked me anywhere. > > > Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 6/12/2013 > See my Leibniz site at > http://team.academia.edu/RogerClough > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3345 / Virus Database: 3199/6403 - Release Date: 06/11/13 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
