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Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Lassoff)
Thu Jun 6 20:24:07 2013

In-Reply-To: <2D0AF14BA6FB334988BC1F5D4FC38CB826CC5460FF@EXCHMBX.hq.nac.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 17:22:36 -0700
From: Jonathan Lassoff <jof@thejof.com>
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Agreed. I can already pretty much just assume this widespread
surveillance is going on.
The Bluffdale, Utah facility isn't being built to store nothing.
It's happening whether we like it or not.

When I care about my privacy, I know that I have to take matters into
my own hands.
GnuPG and TLS are mine and your friends. Use them together. Use them in peace.

Cheers,
jof (0x8F8CAD3D)

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net> wrote:
>> > Has fingers directly in servers of top Internet content companies,
>> > dates to 2007.  Happily, none of the companies listed are transport
>> > networks:
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>> I've always just assumed that if it's in electronic form, someone else is either
>> reading it now, has already read it, or will read it as soon as I walk away from
>> the screen.
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> So, you are comfortable just giving up your right to privacy? It's just the way it is?
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> I'm sorry, I am not as accepting of that fact as you are. I am disappointed and disgusted that this is, and has been, going on. Our government is failing us.
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