On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Judd Pickell <
pickell@gmail.com> 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
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