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.) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] A great deal of Microsoft security is unfortunately just like the underwear of Brittany Spears. If it's even there at all it's needlessly complex and frilly, looks good without actually covering much and is far too easy to get around or remove completely. - dbIII on Slashdot victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
