Re: [WISPA] Law Enforcement Contact Verification?

[Jack Unger]

I'll keep this post politically neutral. 1. I know little about Mosaik Solutions. Their website advises that one thing they do is cellular coverage mapping. See <http://www.mosaik.com/about-us/history/>. They apparently provide many other services as well. See <http://www.mosaik.com/> 2. Just because Homeland Security is supposedly "requiring" law enforcement info FROM Mosaik does not mean that YOU are "required" to give YOUR law enforcement contact information to Mosaik. 3. Our government now encourages public and private companies to enter the "homeland security" business and to begin collecting information on fellow American citizens. In some cases, the government uses private companies to gather and report information about American citizens that the government itself is not authorized to gather directly. Many companies apparently believe it's good business to get paid by the government to spy on their fellow American citizens. "Homeland security" is now a huge, ever-growing business. See <https://www.google.com/search?q=%22homeland+security%22+business&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a> 4. It is ILLEGAL for you as an individual to lie to the government and/or to law enforcement but it is PERFECTLY LEGAL for government and/or law enforcement (or private companies working as an arm of the government) to lie to you. jack   On 4/10/2013 3:14 PM, Adam Greene wrote: Anyone else receive a “Law Enforcement Contact Verification” email from Mosaik Solutions (formerly American Roamer) requesting our company’s “organizational contacts responsible for interacting with Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies, as is required of us by the US Department of Homeland Security”?   Seems strange to me that a private company would contact me out of the blue, implying that they are an official intermediary of the US Government.   I’m not liking it … almost sounds like a phishing scheme. _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. Author (2003) - "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks" Serving the WISP Community since 1993 www.ask-wi.com 760-678-5033 jun...@ask-wi.com

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