On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Judd Pickell wrote: > Perhaps I missed something back when all the hoopla was happening > about the monitoring that was going on. But I could have sworn that > what came out was that not only were phones being actively watched, > but also the data lines in and out of the country. My understanding of > how the internet is setup currently, they would only have to sit on a > few datacenters across the country so long as people don't set up municipal networks... jmz > and they would be able to listen > and monitor all communcation that wasn't locked down by cryptography > (and even then you never know they maybe able to as well.. Not like > they would willing tell us if they could). So is there any real way to > avoid monitoring short of just unplugging yourself from the world? > > Sorry to continue to take this conversation OT, although I do know > that some of the ways to protect yourself from being monitored involve > moving to linux controlled setups with heavy encryption (or atleast I > understand it to be that way). > > Sincerely, > Judd Pickell > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- - http://www.joshuazeidner.com/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss