On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:07:31 -0400, Stephen K. Gielda wrote:

> As far as monitoring, read the press, all Internet is monitored.  No
> need for black boxes at the ISP level when they have the ability to put
> them in major Internet choke points and cover far more with less.  There
> is evidence of them having done that with AT&T documents released.
> There are also plenty of Echelon documents around showing them doing it
> all over the world.  Plenty of proof that the Internet is monitored.  So
> you don't need to believe me when I say they wouldn't need a black box
> in our data center, just read the press.

I find it both humorous and disturbingly naive that people believe this
is not the case. The USG has a history of being turdballs to their own
citizens, can you say PROMIS, MKUltra, Operation <insert>, blah squared,
to think that they are /not/ monitoring is quintessential ignorance.

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