"Do you know how to make God laugh? You tell him your plans." Hari Sheldon – Foudation's Fear
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 15th, 2008
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” He might be corrupt to the bone. He might want to protect cell phone security to cover his own ass, but I still like where he comes down on this issue: Rod Blagojevich: champion of cell phone security Say what you want about [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 14th, 2008
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Unpaid bills lead phone companies to hang up on FBI wiretaps I know this is an old story, but as Nelson would say… . . . . .
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 2nd, 2008
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007 The US (not surprisingly) receives the worst rating. We’re right up there with Russia and China.
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 18th, 2007
Way to go Chris!! Dodd’s Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill – Politics on The Huffington Post Senator Chris Dodd won a temporary victory today after his threats of a filibuster forced Democratic leadership to push back consideration of a measure that would grant immunity to telecom companies that were complicit in warrantless surveillance.
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 17th, 2007
In two recent post Glenn nails it. The first What “winning” in Iraq looks like hits on what’s happened in Basra since the British abandoned it: The article details that Shiite militias — which British troops “unintentionally” armed for years by failing to realize that the “security forces” had no allegiance to the central government [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 16th, 2007
Apparently all are “quaint” notions. Has widely reported all over the place: Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry – New York Times But the battle is really about something much bigger. At stake is the federal government’s extensive but uneasy partnership with industry to conduct a wide range of secret surveillance operations in [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 12th, 2007
Intelligence deputy to America: Rethink privacy – CNN.com Anyone who would trust the government on this is a deluded fool
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 22nd, 2007
Slashdot | Telecom Companies Seek Retroactive Immunity You would think that law and order fetishists in the modern wingnut movement would vehemently oppose and type of amnesty for law breakers, but somehow I doubt it.
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 23rd, 2007
More important than the wild claim that eliminating piracy would somehow put money into farmer’s packets are the unintended consequences of putting the FCC in charge of policing the internet: NBC: Peer-to-peer costs corn farmers money But the bigger issue here is that NBC wants the FCC to require ISPs to filter content. How this [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 7th, 2007
The defendants can’t sue because they can’t prove they were injured. They can’t prove they were injured because the government’s illegal activity is a state secret. Welcome to the wonderful world of Kafka. Glenn says it better: Glenn Greenwald – Salon This is one of those types of legal outcomes which — understandably so — [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2007
Failures at FBI Acknowledged – washingtonpost.com Seem to me to be the natural result of allowing a bureaucracy unfettered access to personal information. Basically Meuller had little reason to monitor what was happening after being handed cart blanche by Congress. Many other parts of the so-called “Patriot Act” are equally woeful. The goal of opening [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 17th, 2007
Bush won’t reauthorize eavesdropping program – Yahoo! News Wasn’t this the program that the White House insisted was absolutely necessary to the safety of the American people? Or perhaps the Prez wants to cover himself for violating the law or better cover to continue violating the law? I guess Bush and Gonzales were for unfettered [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 13th, 2006
The rubber stamp, bend over congress is at it again. Senate panel approves Bush-backed spying bill – Yahoo! News The bill is not a compromise by any reasonable definition of the word. I legalizes and indemnifies the President’s clearly illegal and unconstitutional wiretapping activities. Further government intrusion into civil liberties and expansion of executive powers [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 17th, 2006
Federal Judge Orders Halt to Warrantless Wiretapping – New York Times In a disgusting fit of common sense in support of the US Constitution a terrorist loving, commie anti-christ judge on the ACLU v NSA case ruled: U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 19th, 2006
Bush Thwarted Probe Into NSA Wiretapping President Bush effectively blocked a Justice Department investigation of the National Security Agency’s warrant-less surveillance program, refusing to give security clearances to attorneys who were attempting to conduct the probe, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said yesterday. Bush’s decision represents an unusually direct and unprecedented White House intervention into [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 13th, 2006
broadband » News » FBI: A Backdoor in Every Router – Bending CALEA to their will Big Brother is watching your packets. Anyone else notice how the concept of privacy is rapidly becoming quaint?
Posted in Blog Post on May 17th, 2006
Verizon Denies Turning Over Local Phone Data – New York Times They leave open the possibility that the recently aquired MCI long distance operation be providing access to call logs to the NSA.
Posted in Blog Post on May 14th, 2006
I was just watching Sen. Bill Frist on Sunday Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. When Sen Frist was asked if the collection of American’s telephone records had thwarted a single terrorist plot he refused to answer. Blitzer followed up by asking for an answer without specifics, all Frist could do was continue to mumble about [...]
Posted in Blog Post on May 13th, 2006
Scarborough-Country-BigBrother.mov (video/quicktime Object) I find myself in a near state of shock, I actually agree with Joe Scarborough on the issue of NSA data mining of phone records. Crooks and Liars has the clip.
Posted in Blog Post on May 12th, 2006
Bush Is Pressed Over New Report on Surveillance – New York Times Some Republicans, including Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, defended the N.S.A.’s activities and denounced the disclosure. Mr. Hoekstra said the report “threatens to undermine our nation’s safety.” “Rather than allow our intelligence professionals to maintain a laser [...]
Date: 07/30/2006