Re: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW..DEAD ON FOR SECURITY

[Mark () nfr com]

This is silly.

As correctly stated by Brad, it's against the law to collect and/or report on 
communications of a US person and the law is rigidly adhered to.  Please see

http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_militias/fisa_faq.html. I'm 
sure it's elsewhere on the net too.

see Section 12.

So, if you're a criminal, plan on yor communications being legally 
intercepted and used, but also plan on it being another agency (federal, 
state or local) and not the NSA to deal with it.

But one point of clarification, once any communication is determined to 
involve a US person, citizen or not, the communication is thrown away. The 
point of difference being originated versus involving.

Mark

On Thursday 14 March 2002 11:43 am, Ryan Russell wrote:
<snip>
> > This paranoia has got to stop.  My last active duty station was at NSA.
> > I can tell you they do not intercept any electro-magnetic traffic in the
> > USA.  In addition, when decoding intercepted transmissions overseas, if
> > it is discovered that a US citizen originated the traffic, they must
> > stop working on it.  This is US law and it is rigidly adhered to.
> >
> > I would be more concerned with others intercepting my e-mail than the
> > NSA.
>
> Right, such as the NSA's partner countries who do the interception of the
> US citizens' communications for them.
>
>                                       Ryan
>
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