Too funny ... not ... I remember in Taiwan when I was a kid, there was a nice little informative "truth-in-advertising" sticker right on the rotary dialer on the phone telling us not to talk about politics because the police was listening ... Hey, at least they didn't bother to hide or ofuscate the situation. Maybe NSA was "practicing" there too. For the crap we dish out about the bad evil ol' Soviet Union and the other "oppressive" governments, at least they were up front about their tactics. Ern -----Original Message----- From: Anonymous Remailer [mailto:mix@mixmaster.ceti.pl] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 11:50 AM To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Subject: Olympic email snooping -- FBI-style [From: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20000803.html] ... For the second disturbing fact we jump to the Olympics -- not this year's games in Sydney -- but the 2002 Winter games in Utah. Given the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta games and the 1972 hostage crisis in Munich, I really, really wouldn't want to be responsible for public safety at an Olympic games anywhere. So it isn't surprising that the security plans for Salt Lake in 2002 are very robust - perhaps too robust for some people, including me. ...