[ale] [Fwd: Pirate Banned from Using Linux]

[tom]

Jeff

The government beleives that widders will allow them to monitor somebody's 
behaviour when that somebody _knows_ that they are being watched. I'm not 
introduced to that monitoring software, but I'm very suspicious evasive 
measures would not be that hard to implement.

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> The bigger picture here is that the government seems to know it can
> easily monitor someone using Windoze.  They aren't so sure about Linux.
>
> When I worked in telecom it disgusted me that the government regularly
> created regulations or laws that REQUIRED back doors into phone systems.
> Rather than requiring good old fashioned police work to catch criminals
> they want to be able to spy on all of us on the off chance we are
> criminals.
>
> I recall when it came out a few years ago that M$ was adding an
> invisible ID to every Word document so it could be traced to originator.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Robert Reese
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:49 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] [Fwd: Pirate Banned from Using Linux]
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> On 8/23/2007 at 6:07 PM Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
>> I find this interesting that the DOJ went and told Microsoft, "Bad,
>> bad!" and now is forcing people to use the very software they said was
> a
>> monopoly.  They're giving this guy a monitoring system that runs on his
>> PC in software... what's the point of the monitoring software at all?
>
> Guberment lapdogs don't know nuttin' else 'cept windows.  Let's face it,
> with government pay its not like most of the agencies can afford
> programmers of any salt.  (We do know which ones *can*, of course.)
>
>
>> What's even worse is that they are requiring that the man purchase a
>> license for Windows so that he can use their monitoring software.  Does
>> this make any sense to anyone else, because the sanity of it evades me.
>> I would rather rot in jail than be forced to enter into an agreement
>> which I do not agree to, that's for sure.
>
> Just to make them ill, he oughta get Vista and see if their software
> works on it.  Ooh, better yet, Windows 3.11. ;c)
>
>
> Okay, in all seriousness, what is to prevent him from getting a LiveCD
> and a thumbdrive?
>
> Cheers,
> Robert~
>
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