Re: [silk] The US of A is officially paranoid.

2008-01-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Srini Ramakrishnan [21/01/08 09:57 +0530]: How safe do you feel when you are in the presence of a policeman, politician, government bureaucrat when you transact official business in one line - How safe would you feel as a muslim in gujarat?

Re: [silk] The US of A is officially paranoid.

2008-01-20 Thread Gautam John
On Jan 21, 2008 9:57 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > would fit nicely into the emigree-to-USA crowd. So, my additional > question to them is, how safe do you feel about living in India? Personally, I think the fact of being an 'alien' will add significant worry. So long as I'

Re: [silk] The US of A is officially paranoid.

2008-01-20 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
I assume that question largely went out to the Indians on the list who would fit nicely into the emigree-to-USA crowd. So, my additional question to them is, how safe do you feel about living in India? How safe do you feel when you are in the presence of a policeman, politician, government bureauc

Re: [silk] The US of A is officially paranoid.

2008-01-20 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Gautam John wrote: [ on 09:34 AM 1/21/2008 ] Do stories such as this affect your thinking or actual living/working/studying in the US? Speaking for myself: Stories such as this *certainly* affect my (already reluctant and as infrequent as possible) travels to the US. When you add officially

[silk] The US of A is officially paranoid.

2008-01-20 Thread Gautam John
Do stories such as this affect your thinking or actual living/working/studying in the US? ___ IN a recent morning interview in a Midtown Manhattan office Ramak Fazel came across as the quintessential world citizen: tall, slim and elegant, his English tinged with an untraceable acce

Re: [silk] FBI buries docs showing US officials stole nuke secrets?

2008-01-20 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 20 Jan 2008 10:32 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > I always thought it was the Chinese who sold the nuke to PK! Thanks for posting yet another whistleblowing article. The Chinese passed actual (tested) designs of bombs to Pakistan. But a lot of other technology related to refining and b

Re: [silk] FBI buries docs showing US officials stole nuke secrets?

2008-01-20 Thread Charles Haynes
On Jan 20, 2008 10:32 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always thought it was the Chinese who sold the nuke to PK! A valuable secret like that, you don't sell just once! -- Charles

[silk] FBI buries docs showing US officials stole nuke secrets?

2008-01-20 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
I always thought it was the Chinese who sold the nuke to PK! Cheeni http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3216737.ece Also on BB, http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/19/fbi-buries-docs-show.html >From The Sunday Times January 20, 2008 FBI denies file exposing nucle

Re: [silk] "Unshredding" documents

2008-01-20 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
The newer shredders in use by the US agencies after the Iran incident use pulping and chemical destruction. Now if the US government were to ever need to hide secrets, they'd do it better than the Stazi... just saying. And, Germany's automatic unshredder is just the largest and the most automated,

Re: [silk] "Unshredding" documents

2008-01-20 Thread Anish Mohammed
Hi Udhay, Even before the advent of computers ( and improvement of algorithms to do this), similiar thing has happened in the past. It was for the US, apparently Iranians have reconstructed large fractions of documents which Americans had shredded (embasy incident). Lesson's from the past missed

[silk] "Unshredding" documents

2008-01-20 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Very cool, and very thought-provoking. Shades of both Brin's Transparent Society, and the librarian from _Snow Crash_ in here. Just like digital data is only considered safely erased when the substrate (e.g, a hard disk) is irrecoverably destroyed, so too, here. Anybody recall the last line