<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Stefano Vaj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefano.vaj@gmail.com">stefano.vaj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><div class="gmail_quote">2012/3/22 Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Wow, that is disturbing. The idea of a government agency having access to that much private communication between its citizens is not good.<br></blockquote></div><br></div>Not that non-citizens would be immune... :-)<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, but the US Constitution doesn't preclude spying on international communications.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Personally, I have two answers:<br>
- try to make things as difficult as possible to snoopers (make use of Freenet, encrypt your email, anonimise yourself, etc, whenever possible, even for trivial stuff)</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
- accept (and realise) that privacy has been a transient phenomenon in human societies, for citizens *and* governments alike, and behave accordingly.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>As I said, my primary concern is that this information could be used by those who have it to ensure that their power isn't diminished by those who, at least theoretically, have the power to do so. I don't have anything to hide, but I'm *sure* there are people in Washington who *do*, and I'm also sure they're not all as careful as they should be. J. Edgar Hoover supposedly had secret files containing embarrassing information about his enemies. Imagine what he could have done with access to everyone's mail and telephone calls.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div>