From: James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com>
   To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org
   Sent: Friday, October 4, 2013 4:25 AM
   Subject: Re: <nettime> A CEO who resisted NSA spying is out of prison.
   On 2013-10-04 20:02, Adam Back wrote:
   ...
   >>> A CEO who resisted NSA spying is out of prison. And he feels
   >>> ‘vindicated’
   >>> by Snowden leaks.
   >>>
   [1]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30/a-ceo-w
   ho-resisted-nsa-spying-is-out-of-prison-and-he-feels-vindicated-by-snow
   den-leaks/
   >>> By Andrea Peterson, Published: September 30 at 12:07 pmE-mail the
   writer
   >>> Both Edward Snowden and Joseph Nacchio revealed details about some
   of
   >>> the
   >>> things that go on at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade.
   >>> (REUTERS/NSA/Handout)
   >>>
   >>> Both Edward Snowden and Joseph Nacchio revealed details about some
   of
   >>> the
   >>> things that go on at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade. (NSA/Reuters)
   >>>
   >>> Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in
   a
   >>> legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few years
   later, its
   >>> CEO was indicted by federal prosecutors. He was convicted, served
   >>> four and
   >>> a half years of his sentence and was released this month.
   >Insider trading laws are so vague and all encompassing that it is
   >entirely impossible to be innocent of insider trading, unless you pick
   >your stocks by throwing darts
   >Almost every investor is guilty of insider trading.  Prosecutions are
   >selective and arbitrary.
   This is why that a system such as my "Denial of Disservice Attack" idea
   could be so attractive to corporate America and its high-level (and not
   so high level) employees.    If it were explained to them that it is in
   their interest to lower the Federal prison population from 220,000 to
   15,000, and that it could be done for perhaps only $20 million per
   year,  they should flock to contribute.  It could be arranged as a
   charitable contribution ('to encourage employment of the jury system',)
   and thus be tax-deductible.
           Jim Bell

References

   1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30/a-ceo-who-resisted-nsa-spying-is-out-of-prison-and-he-feels-vindicated-by-snowden-leaks/