Author: Demo HassanDemo Hassan Date: Aug 18, 2007 12:13
>>Avoiding warrants for these cases sounds simple,
>>though potentially invasive of Americans' civil liberties.
>>Most calls outside the country involve foreigners
>>talking to foreigners. Most communications within
>>the country are constitutionally protected -- U.S. "persons"
>>talking to U.S. "persons." To avoid wiretapping every
>>communication, NSA will need to build massive automatic
>>surveillance capabilities into telephone switches.
>>Here things get tricky: Once such infrastructure is
>>in place, others could use it to intercept communications.
>
> Can you imagine how much totally boring crap they've got to listen to before
> they get to the juicy parts, like some Hollywood starlet getting it on with
> the store greeter at WackyWorld? Um...
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