Archive for February, 2006
Some days are like this
This happens to not be one of them but…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Email Privacy Warning
Here’s a nice warning message to attach to your emails:Warning: All contents of this email and all other communications by citizens of the United States to other citizens and non-citizens subject to unconsititutional, extralegal searches by the National Security Agency under the executive order of George W. Bush. This action is in violation of Foreign [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Return of Total Information Awareness
The government project known as TIA (Total Information Awareness) has returned. It’s now known as ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement) and run out of Homeland Security instead of Defense. You trust Homeland Security more than Defense right? We weren’t really using the fourth amendment anyway, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )My Latest Spiel About PGP
Everyone who desires their e-mail communications to be private – or at least difficult to next to impossible for anyone besides the intended recipient to read should really use PGP.
Phil Zimmermann PGP Background
Wondering if PGP has a back door? Maybe but highly unlikely – see the FAQ:
Phil Zimmermann PGP FAQ
Unfortunately [...]
Harper’s Index for January
Also because it’s interesting and generally provides a good snapshot of the current economic and politcal climate – the Harper’s Index.http://www.harpers.org/HarpersIndex2006-01.html
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gonzales: Washington Liked Electronics Too
Alberto: President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/06.html#a7043
This is so astoundingly absurd a thing to say I can hardly believe it. Even though it’s pretty obvious what he was getting at that isn’t true either. Not one of those presidents authorized surveillance [...]
Entry for February 6th 2006
Once again I am trapped in a small room no more than 5′x5′. The typical grey walls and flourescent lights of this prison allow only the muted strains of The Who to trickle into my hearing from several cells away.
Oh, wait, I forgot – I’m at work – not in prison. Though the difference seems [...]
Another Ramble
Yet another place to ramble. If only I had something to say. And I will but not right now.
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