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The nonsense of security - 6/6/2006 7:05:01 AM

meatcleaver

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The European Court has ruled it is illegal for European governments to allow Airline companies to give private information on its citizens to the American authorities who require it because they say they need it for the fight against terrorism. This has been a peeve for many Europeans and one of the reasons for the claim in fall of European visitors to the US. It peeves me but I still go to the US.

I got back from the US this morning and turned the radio on while I made myself a coffee to hear a report on the BBC about the nonsense of this so called increased security measure. Apparently with a modicum of computer security knowledge and a discarded aeroplane ticket stub, one can find out all the private information one wants to know about an individual, from address, job, social security and passport numbers, how much they travel and who pays, the whole damn lot. Apparently it is so so easy now for a terrorist to steal someones identity and get into the US under an assumed identity than it was before. The whole internet is apparently awash with this information. Who thinks these security measures up and are they really anti-terrorist measures or is it just Big Brother watching us?

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RE: The nonsense of security - 6/6/2006 7:19:32 AM

pahunkboy

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Both govt and corps are in a desparate grab to own cyberspace. Both are dangerous, intrusive.

When I reach a call center being answerred in India, they have my info.. Not subject to US law.

I do think there are some very bad boys out there that would unleash a dirty bomb. A cult spnkled saminella/food poisening.. one a salad bar in the pacific northwest...just before an election vote, in order to sway the vote.

Us peons have heard and tuned out the war on crime, war on drugs drumbeat.
The war on terror, is not much more then a hyper war on crime.

The "system" is always right, or is right in its own time frame. Not a peons time frame.

The system is also sluggish and top heavy.
But-- as they say about casinos.... the odds are in the casinos favor. The house wins. Not the peon.

See?

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RE: The nonsense of security - 6/6/2006 8:44:03 AM

popeye1250

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Hell they can just walk right in over that wide-open Mexican border!
That shit has to be stopped!

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