Maybe the people who are so vocal about the government should live/work in another country. Its their rules and your a guest.
Been there twice. Regards, Scott www.identityforge.com From: Clark Morris Sent: Sunday, April 6, 2014 12:34 PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On 6 Apr 2014 07:15:59 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >In <[email protected]>, on 04/05/2014 > at 11:41 AM, Clark Morris <[email protected]> said: > >>I remember my sister saying her European friends couldn't >>understand what the big deal about Watergate was. > >The same in Israel. > >>The assumed that the snooping involved was common >>practice given their experience with their own governments. > >Perhaps, but I suspect that it was really a question of whose ox was >gored. Certainly, people in Israel got very upset over what to me >looked like minor scandals; the were more egregious than Watergate >because they were local. > >Were the French as blasé over scandals in France as they were over >Watergate? > From what I recall from over 35 years ago was that her friends thought that the government snooping was a normal state of affairs. Given the records retention requirements in the United States (and maybe other countries), most organizations have to keep a huge amount of documentation including all e-mails so that the government can later troll through them to prove wrongdoing. For organizations the exposure is not snooping by the government of jurisdiction which can get the data anyway but by foreign governments doing it for other reasons. Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
