Oh boy... We *ARE* criminals!!!

[Michael Butash]

We don't get it back.  The two party political powers will never give up
that grasp, and neither will the corporate entities that pocket them.

I won't even pretend to believe things will be made right until
something other than a republican or democrat come to power.  Until
then, it's right pocket or left of some upstream power that has vested
interest in keeping people deaf, dumb, and blind, letting government
workers dictate and derive in the name of "national security", with
obvious loose interpretation with a blatant lack of oversight.

Like you, I've said these things for years, rather unpopular, but truth
tend to hurt a misguided sense of national pride.  I hate politics, as
it's a quagmire like religion I just tend to avoid, but having worked
for service providers, corporations, just about any slightly advanced
organization, I've seen how due process gets abused first hand
pertaining to tech.  When guys in black suits show up with a fisa
warrant and ask for an optical tap and collector system silently to be
inserted into a given path of a host to sniff them, or take a hard disk
(or all) from a raid system, it's never to be talked about again.  It's
something at times even IT management isn't told what's going on, and
comes straight from legal, bypassing all change control to stay off the
books.  Your *rights* at work... 

Look at my linkedin and see which of my prior employers might have
affected you.  ;)

Now I'm on the terrorist watch list, but I suspect I have been
anyways...  Damn linux users.

-mb



> The million dollar question is how do we get Government back to a place 
> where it is securing our rights?
> 
> Keith
>