Yonatan Zunger (zunger) wrote,
Yonatan Zunger
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The NSA is watching you

USA Today reporting that the NSA keeps logs of all calls in the US. Not really a big surprise.

Now, recently you may have heard Alberto Gonzales explaining to Congress how the NSA does not perform any surveillance inside the US without legal warrants, etc. Which is true... if you accept a definition of "surveillance" analogous to Clinton's definition of "sex." This might be enough legal cavilling to make what he said not strictly perjury, (or rather, that would be an issue if the Senate Judiciary Committee hadn't thoughtfully decided not to swear him in...) but I'd say it doesn't pass the smell test: this was surveillance by any plain-English understanding of the word.

So there you have the difference between the Clinton and Bush administrations: one prevaricates about his sex life, the other about the erosion of Constitutional liberties.
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For those of you who want to keep the NSA out of your business:
http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/zfone/index.html

I really wish phone companies and voip program makers would make this a standard feature. Add to that: with no backdoor.

There are hardware boxes you can attach to regular phones that do this too. I know Mr. Zimmermann was involved with one of those a few years ago too but I'm not sure of their availability and much like video phones, you need them on both ends.

-Damiaan