Echelon

[Cruddy]

I don't really have a problem with being monitored. I've got nothing to hide.

Anyway, it's easy enough to keep something confidential if you want it that way with regards to patents and inventions (like, don't put it on the net).

And if it saves lives by catching ricin poisoners or similar, it's a good thing.

What I would like to see is an oversight committee, to investigate possible misuse of the system for non-intelligence reasons... but I guess that won't happen under a Republican admin.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by EZRhino
If you want proof just mix in a few keywords (bomb, allah, etc...) innocously in to the next e-mail to the folks then order a credit report from your bank. If you met the right people or read the right books back in college you have no worries

I had a friend working at Cisco Europe, and they all used to have a header which listed a stack of "sensitive" words for email.

Eventually management came down on them, because it was causinng bandwidth loss on a massive scale (too many emails to check).