How private are your PM's???

[Whitmore]

With all the computer crap going on these days I often wonder if our PM's are actually private? Ever wonder how private your E-mail is? What about your telephone?



Not that I have any classified information I wish to share with anyone but with technology being what it is these days it sure makes a guy wonder.



Cheers, Kevin

 

[illflem]

PATRIOT ACT: Law's use causing concerns



http://www.legalreader.com/archives/001428.html



It appears this is the first use of the Patriot act to gather information from emails and wire taps to arrest/indite a non-terrorist. At least it includes politicians who got busted.



It would be just as easy to tap into your email at your ISP as it is to tap your phone and now with the Patriot act they don't need a warrant or even a reason to do it.

Who knows who's being monitored by whom.

Could be that just visiting a questionable website gets you on a monitor list.



Could be snail mail is the most secure, at least you can tell if someone has opened your mail. maybe.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Anyone that has administrative access to the server that your PM's or your emails on has full access to them. They are also blasting across the net and going through many routers, etc on the way through and can be intercepted there as well. So the answer to your question is not very private.

 

[The patriot]

With all the talk about "bombing" here, I'm sure we keep several computer in Maryland real busy.

Eric

 

[gitchesum]

I've had a couple of different government agencies show up in the LSTDR log files.



Haven't checked them in quite a while, but I bet they are still hitting it.

 

[Chris N5CWM]

Cell phones..

I have heard that even though it's "illegal" to monitor cellular phone conversations, it happens and it's easy. The new digital phones are impossible to monitor without sophisticated equipment. There are no scanners, old or new, that can decode the digital signal. But the analog signal is loud and clear. There are very few analog systems or phones around anymore.

Also, the employees of the cellphone companies that work at the cell sites. . all they have to do is pick a conversation and sit back. The only way to have a private conversation is face to face in an area with a lot of background noise. . like next to an idling Cummins Ram!

 

[snowracer69]

Re: Cell phones..

Originally posted by Chris N5CWM

The only way to have a private conversation is face to face in an area with a lot of background noise. . like next to an idling Cummins Ram!

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My newest excuse for owning my "loud and obnoxious Cummins!"



It's not paranoia, cause they're really after me!

 

[Steve M]

The way we found out my younger daughter was secretly calling her natural mother and telling her how bad we treat her (we simply have house rules, no drugs, teenage sex, etc... ) and how she wants to live with her, we over heard her cell phone conversation in our laptop computer speakers. Don't ask how, I have no idea. However, I shipped her off to live with her mother on the chicken farm 20 miles from the nearest town. She hates it and wants to come back. All due to the vulnerability of overhearing a conversation just when you thought you were in private.



As for the internet. I don't give a rat's axx if ya'll, my wife, or president Bush knows occasionally I like to look a nekid weming. But I do care if terrorists are planning terrorist activities and it goes undetected because someone's perceived privacy over public airwaves is more important than our national security.

 

[illflem]

I have to give terrorists a little more credit than to plan activities over the air waves especially when they know it could be monitored. Look at bin Laden, it's said he won't come near electronic devices, not having much luck at catching him are we?

So far email/website monitoring has only busted the one terrorist who was going to take down the Brooklyn bridge with a cutting torch and should be jailed just for stupidity.

What the monitoring has done is set off a few costly orange alerts due to intentional false info from al Queda. Those jerks are no fools, they know how to cost us billions without bombs.

 

[Doc Tinker]

I agree with Bill. The terrorists are winning by getting us to spend big money preventing stuff that isn't going to happen. But, if we slack off, guess what will happen. They got us backing into the corner now.



Doc