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 [[1]mailto:mix@mixmaster.ceti.pl]
   Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 11:50 AM
   To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
   Subject: Olympic email snooping -- FBI-style

   [From: [2]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.

   ...

References

   1. mailto:mix@mixmaster.ceti.pl
   2. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20000803.html