Skepticism of the NSA-affiliation list is warranted. Just as much as skepticism about that NSA and its global ilk have been tapping all international and domestic telecommunications. Nobody believed that was going on, and some ignorant fools still disbelieve, or worse, cannot bear to believe a technology so enjoyable could be so violative. The telcos have been screwing their customers from day one, so why would ISPs be any different? The Internet is a spying machine just like the telecomms and postal services have always been, get used to it, or get over it, or get off it, or give up the addiction. Lesson One for the conspiracy deniers: The only true conspiracy theorists are the spies, they could not exist unless they kept the natsec threats and denials achurning. No infosec system is as effective as promoting that it is safe and secure. Blind faith in the reliability and trustworthiness of widespread communication technology is damn comforting. Preaching to the choir here, to be sure. At 10:22 AM 12/21/2007 +0100, you wrote:
Paging John Young.
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From: Olaf Selke <olaf.selke@blutmagie.de> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:42:13 +0100 To: or-talk@freehaven.net Subject: Re: another seeming attack on my server's DirPort User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) Reply-To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Scott Bennett wrote:
I still don't understand the thinking of those people. I have no
reason
to believe that the Chinese government is allowing the NSA to control IP addresses allocated to, and served inside, China. It makes no sense at all, and leads me to conclude that the whole list is worthless.
I do agree. The same here. I don't believe all German major Telcos are NSA affiliated.
Olaf
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