ISP misinterpreted....as if

Anyone know what the NSA email address is, I lost some emails from a while back that I would like to get back. Welcome to 1984...

So an unnamed ISP gave the FBI the keys to the WHOLE chicken coop, instead of just one nest?

Now I understand why all the undersea telecomm cables got cut where they did. Offshore wiretapping operations fall firmly under the NSA, far away from congressional authority and the resulting hearings. Not that Congress have time right now, being bogged down with the "Steroids use in Baseball Inquisition".

Typical Bush & Shrub politics... "Don't pay any attention to the FBI black bag job, Steroid use in Baseball is far more important".

The fact is that this domestic wiretap situation is far more important than Watergate EVER was, but don't look for "Deep Throat" this time. Cheney will have had any whistleblowers "Disappeared" before anything can come of it.

The quid pro quo will be that Ole' Shrub will have a nice fat paycheck from "Telecommunication Consulting Fee's" waiting for him when he's looking for work next year. And all that for a guy who can't figure out how to comply with ANY law, let alone dial a touch tone phone.

Bollocks !

We need a Dante to do justice to this lot.

Something for the eavesdroppers like an eternity in a windowless resonance chamber with no damping where a thousand synthetic voices are yacking away with all the telephone conversations of the world at once with the volume changing arbitrarily over time for each conversation. A bit like an Andy Warhol film but more all-encompassing and nnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeevvvvvvvvvveeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr-

fffffffuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkkkkiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggg-

eeeeeennnnnnnddddddiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggagagagagagggggggggaaaaaaa

I'm happy to hear that somebody has a backup of all my lost emails...just another service provided by the US government.

One of these days the Fed is simply going to use the commerce clause to legalize any damn thing they want. Hell, if they can stop some schmuck from growing wheat for his own use because it would disrupt interstate commerce (I shit you not, see Wickard v. Filburn) they can make a similar argument that surveillance is legal because suing Verizon and ATT (or any company cum gov't lackey for that matter) would negatively impact interstate commerce.

Paris because it actually makes sense to her.

Ok - I grant that I *might* be interested to read about the mistake by the ISP, or perhaps learn more about the FBI's wiretapping / email surveillance abilities - if, and only if, it were news (the clue is in the NEW part of NEWs...), but frankly I couldn't give a paris hilton for the writer's personal opinions on the the incompetence of the political administration of another country, crow-barred into a rant about IT / Telecoms privacy.

If the writer is really still daft enough to expect that sending an email is or should be secure from their employer, ISP / MSP, or government - or for that matter the crater-faced kid next door - perhaps they could kindly refrain from writing on a tech news board , and perhaps take up writing the back-page-blurb for the next Andy McNab novel - the techno-hype might be more welcome there...

Please, please, el reg, could we get back to IT and Science news with a liberal dose of dark sarcasm, brit and, well, Reg-ishness, rather than political agenda-fuelled blather...

They only do these things to let us know they are on the job reading our emails, how many of those viiiiiaaaaagara ads did they read this is why I could never be in law enforcement I would have to kill someone daily just to make myself feel better about my job.

I hope Anthony Eeles wises up to the implications of immoral use of technology before he gets hammered by it--but it's probably too late. I'm not saying that he's a criminal or anything. However, give me enough of his personal data, and I'd wager I can frame him easily enough. Of course, since this is the FBI, we'd assume they only want to secure his cooperation for purely legitimate reasons.

Wait, is that I flying pig over there?

Lets all encrypt every email we send. Let the government spend gazillion dollars trying to decrypt "Hi Mom hope you are OK, ps the u235 capsules are out back"

Ed

Sad in one way because there are ways and means to check on those who snoop on your email

for example on digg http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/are-you-sure-your-email-isnt-being-hacked/

As Paris would say "for every measure there is a counter measure !" !

"Please, please, el reg, could we get back to IT and Science news with a liberal dose of dark sarcasm, brit and, well, Reg-ishness, rather than political agenda-fuelled blather..." ... By Anthony Eeles Posted Monday 18th February 2008 23:35 GMT

Do we have to have this drivel on the register... ?

Tone, the One carries the Other ... they are inextricably linked/joined at the hip/Yin and Yang ..... and to have Orderly Power and Control in One will deliver IT in the Other. And I'm pleased to report that there is not the slightest hint of dark sarcasm in that liberal dose of IT and Science news.

For Real Fun and Games in Electronic Spooksville, just try sending e-mails to the FBI or CIA or NSA or MI5 or MI6 or FSB or or or ........ to discover how far behind the CyberSpace Curves they really are.

All at Sea and SeaSick wouldn't even begin to do Justice to their Floundering Disarray. Such is their Paranoia and Highly Probable Fear of XXXXPosure to Accountablity and Responsibility that they are Petrified to Use ITs Instant Communications Services, which is just too Sad for words and Bad enough but made much worse whenever they compound their Fears by intercepting Third Party Communications which harbour no such Paranoid Delusion.

What it will create though is a Frank and Earnest Openness of Communication on the Web, as Communications/E-mails/Chats etc. thought to be intercepted or which solicited no reasonably expected response, are published to Blogs or Fora ..... for Peer Review and Deeper Discussion/NEUKlearer Understanding. ....... much as is happening here, now, as in this Post. :-)

oh god...I actually mostly understood him this time; have I finally gone insane?

Hi Mom, I told you I would have the garden dug up, but this year the FBI and NSA people will be stopping by to do it. Happy Planting this spring.

You haven't gone insane, I understood him too...but I actually like reading what he writes. Sometimes he's the only one who actually seems to "get it!"

"We accidentally gave you access to every email address we have when you only 'asked' for one.

We are happy to cooperate and look forward to doing such lucrative business again."

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