"National security"is the passphrase to the constitution. Or haven't you noticed. In this case, I don't think anyone will complain very loudly. In this case, for once, the NSA would be right, and it wouldn't just be FUD. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Derek Balling wrote:
Doesn't domestic surveillance of civilian cel-phone calls, without a warrant, fall into a really "Gray"[1] area? I thought NSA wasn't permitted to do that...
D
[1] For suitably dark and illegal values of gray
At 12:36 AM -0400 9/12/01, afbrown@bellatlantic.net wrote:
A great deal more the cellulars are monitored Specifically all outbound domectic traffic with an international IP address and all inbound traffic from abroard is parsed for key words and phases.
Jonathan Wienke wrote:
ABC news anchor Peter Jennings just said that the NSA is going through their recordings of cellular phone calls to see if they can find other cellular calls similar to the one from Ted Olson's wife who was on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
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