On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:03 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > There's still a free version of PGP available as GnuGP. But people > generally don't want the inconvenience of dealing with encryption. > > > On 6/12/2013 3:16 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > > How to protect your computer from spying by the IRS and Eric H. Holder, Jr. > > These days it seems that you need to protect yourself from more than > commercial vendors, namely spying by the IRS and Eric H. Holder, Jr. > Snowden, the man who recently exposed the NSA activities, says he can > from his desktop listen to your telephone and read your email. > > > But it would have been illegal for him to do so. People are always able to > do illegal things. The question is what preventive measures should be > taken. Snowden was an IT tech who was just supposed to keep the system > running, so of course he had the ability to tap data flows. But there > should have been some administrative oversight to keep him from doing that > beyond what was necessary for his work (and maybe there was). > > The question is should it be legal for the government to collect this data.
It is most certainly a step towards totalitarianism. > The Supreme Court has said it's Constitutional I cannot find any evidence of such a decision. In fact, PRISM has been kept secret, for all intentes and purposes, from all of the checks and balances of democracy. This guy does a very good job of describing the situation: http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/csarchive/Show-255---The-Big-Long-Surveillance-Show/N.S.A.-security-spying > and polls say it's favor 62% > to 34% by the public, so... This poll says the opposite: http://www.gallup.com/poll/163043/americans-disapprove-government-surveillance-programs.aspx?utm_source=add_this&utm_medium=addthis.com&utm_campaign=sharing#.UbjX5rNUzns.twitter Also, it appears that a vast number of democrats that opposed this type of surveillance under Bush now approve it under Obama, so these opinions are highly tainted by partisanship. Telmo. > Brent > > > To do so, at least to a partial extent, start here: > > 1.) See this link: > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383203092034876.html > > 2.) Switch your default browser to Mozilla Firefox, as most of the free > add-ons only works on it. > > 3.) Download and install the freeware Firefox add-on from > > http://www.privacychoice.org/trackerblock/update > > This so far from a cursory search has not blocked me anywhere. > > > Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 6/12/2013 > See my Leibniz site at > http://team.academia.edu/RogerClough > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3345 / Virus Database: 3199/6403 - Release Date: 06/11/13 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
