For IP, if you wish.... David Farber is alleged to have written, on or about 08-Jul-06 08:00:
Begin forwarded message: From: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org> Date: July 8, 2006 2:22:38 AM EDT To: Blaster <rforno@infowarrior.org> Cc: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: FBI plans new Net-tapping push FBI plans new Net-tapping push By Declan McCullagh http://news.com.com/FBI+plans+new+Net-tapping+push/ 2100-1028_3-6091942.html
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b" Eliminate the current legal requirement saying the Justice Department must publish a public "notice of the actual number of communications interceptions" every year. That notice currently also must disclose the "maximum capacity" required to accommodate all of the legally authorized taps that government agencies will "conduct and use simultaneously."
This would eliminate the public's ability to learn interesting and important facts like those published here (also by Mr McCullagh): http://speakout.com/activism/opinions/4377-1.html. For example, "According to government statistics, in 1998 police intercepted 2,313,210 conversations but the taps -- 71% were for drug-related crimes -- resulted in only 911 convictions." Was that a reasonable trade-off between security and freedom? And how else can we, the people, make such judgments without having facts like these? -- Hugh D. Hyatt Bryn Athyn, PA The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. -- John Philpot Curran ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen@leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]