Mulling over George Pope to Steve Asher 06 Jan 2003

Hi George!

SA> Tiffany Olson, deputy chief of staff at the CIPB, told the New York
SA> Times: "We don't have anybody that is able to look at the entire picture.
SA> When something is happening, we don't know until it's too late."

SA> But critics fear that the plan would give the government the 
SA> potential
SA> for real-time monitoring of individuals.

 GP> It's old news! :P

 GP> They've been real-time monitoring for AGES online! :P

Yes, but they don't necessarily know for sure who they are
monitoring. If I type in "_icin" or "_astor _il _ree", it
will probably trigger _CHELON or _arnivore or something
before it gets to you, but the spooks reading the message
won't know for sure if I wrote it, or if it was a case of
false identity or identity theft. Only when an electronic
identity is "bound" to a physical identity will our masters
be happy in their ability to monitor our every move online.

You will know when your ISP has provided the Government with
a list of users & their email addresses when the spam starts
arriving from various Govt departments, pollies & the like :)

Cheers, Steve..

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