LOL. I actually had an incredibly vague and banal conversation with my mother the other day. (She's in canada) Basically she was talking about wanting to visit a certain island in the St Lawrence, and I asked her if she could get to this other town where some unverified genealogical research says we might have had ancestors.
I cranked up Google Maps, which kept timing out because of all the other windows I had open. She broke out an atlas, which turned out to only have an inset for the far eastern edge of Quebec. The town is too small to show up at that scale and appears to be reachable only by plane or boat, but it took almost an hour for me to find it and to decide that, and the conversation then turned to "towns we have visited in the past", which turned out to often have slightly different names in her map than in mine" "Do you you see Lac Memphremagog?" "No? Is that this lake near Sherbrooke?" "That's Lake Magog..." At one point she said: "Aren't you glad nobody is listening to this?" Well.... LOL She had actually never heard of the eavesdropping program. But since we also discussed the news, "Detroit" and "bomb" both showed up in the conversation, hehe, so it actually met the announced criteria for monitoring. If the feds are dumb enough to listen to all that though, we might as well all just give up right now ;) On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com>wrote: > > Yeah, think of how horrible it will be if someone other than the > Federal Government is intercepting and archiving every single call you > make. Time to freak out! > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Robert Munn <cfmuns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I wonder if the next must-have app for the iPhone will be an encryption > > add-on. > > > > > > http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/54ca8e66-f485-11de-9cba-00144feab49a.html > > > > Computer hackers this week said they had cracked and published the secret > > code that protects 80 per cent of the worlds mobile phones. The move > will > > leave more than 3bn people vulnerable to having their calls intercepted, > and > > could force mobile phone operators into a costly upgrade of their > networks. > > > > Karsten Nohl, a German encryption expert, said he had organised the hack > to > > demonstrate the weaknesses of the security measures protecting the global > > system for mobile communication (GSM) and to push mobile operators to > > improve their systems > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:309828 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
