[ale] totally OT: hobbies

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Yes, but, as far as I know, not being in the spook community, they're not just vacuuming up every byte from every public server on the planet.  That would be prohibitively expensive and inefficient even for the government.  As I understand it, they've placed taps at key intersections of the data flow of the internet, like gmail, verizon, at&t, comcast, etc.  That way, they get 90% of the info they're interested in for 1/100 of the trouble and money.

So, since this message went through gmail, it probably already resides on an NSA hard drive.  And, with all those juicy words, it may have been "flagged" for further attention.  To each his own, but, I'm not sure poking the sleeping dragon is the best idea.  They really do have a critical mission to search for terrorists, with due process.  I appreciate that they're doing that.  But, not only that, I remember receiving an official letter from the FCC once that I wasn't expecting.  It was actually just a routine notice regarding my ham radio license.  But, just getting it was unnerving.  In general, the less communications I get from the govt., the better.

Sincerely,

Ron



Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com> wrote:

>This email list is archived on the ale site. No need for conspiracy
>theories. The data is public.
>On Jul 9, 2013 10:41 AM, "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <
>atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>> Remember the scene in the movie "The Core".  Two government agents
>come
>> into a bar to escort the geologist to Washington after he discovers
>the
>> world is going to end.  He says "What if I say no?"  They say "Well,
>we
>> have no sense of humor ... AND we're armed."
>>
>> You can BET they have a tap on the gmail data stream, and their bot
>has
>> probably cataloged this message thread.  Actually, I heard something
>on the
>> Tech News Today podcast about Google planning to sell your email
>contacts
>> anyway, so who needs to tap it?
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>> On 7/9/2013 8:18 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>>
>> Wow, you got me! I started to feel scared just having this email on
>my
>> phone.
>> On Jul 8, 2013 11:39 PM, "Doug Hall" <doughalldev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hobbies?
>>>
>>>  Singing in the church choir
>>>  Gardening (Well, that's sort of a forced hobby, recently. My front
>yard
>>> is eroding due to a lack of grass.)
>>> Spouting my conservative agenda on Facebook
>>> High explosives
>>> Biotoxins. (I'm thinking of combining these two.)
>>> Sending anthrax to deserving members of Congress.
>>>  Planting pipe bombs in Mosques.
>>> Pranking the Government into thinking I'm a terrorist.
>>>
>>>  Gotcha! ;-) Incidentally, if the government actually does read this
>and
>>> does NOT have a sense of humor, please be a character witness in my
>trial!
>>>
>>>  Doug
>>>
>>>
>> --
>>
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>quickly.)
>>
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(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new email messages very quickly.)

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