US Drafting Plan to Surveil All Email
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National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today.
...McConnell is developing a Cyber-Security Policy, still in the draft stage, which will closely police Internet activity.
"Ed Giorgio, who is working with McConnell on the plan, said that would mean giving the government the authority to examine the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search," author Lawrence Wright pens. (Emphasis added.)
No one in Congress will have the guts to block this. You have to take care of yourself. Time for those New Year's resolutions:
GNU Privacy GuardEnigmailTrueCryptAnonymizers to use for your web searches;
this search site might also be worth investigating.
Update: Julian Sanchez, at
Ars Technica, discusses this news at greater length.
Brad
- Friday 18 January 2008 - 13:28:27
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