Re: complaints about the governemnt spying!

[Steve Kudlak <chromazine () sbcglobal net>]

Totally Offtopic a quote from Catholic School was "The Growth of 
Christianity was watered with the blood of Martyrs" yep that is what the 
old Irish Nun told us. SO it is not just an Ayatollah who said it. But 
anyway it would be nice if we could drift back to more technical 
discusssions. I was hoping the spying thing would eventually get down to 
measures and countermesaures and how one protects oneself as not all 
espionage is not always by a government who at least thinks it is out of 
the general good. Yeah I worked for various powers that be never in 
anything real exciting, but anywaty generally that is what we thought. I 
am less worried about the NSA than private detectives and others like 
that. A friend once ended up being a part of a mistaken identity problem 
with some bounty hunters and they made her life quite miserable for 
awhile and it her a longtime to get remuneration from them for the 
damage they did to her property during their "friendly little error".
Also if one works in a medium sizedf firm there is industrial espionage 
and admittedly most of that like the bounty hunters and the like do 
things via "social engineering" like dating the executive secretary or 
chatting up someone, there still was, and probably still is a moderate 
amount of electronic stuff going on. In the case of my friend they 
exploited the fact that most portable phones leak and that was the 
problem, the people listening could not tell which portable phone they 
were listening to or so they claimed.

So I am hoping a more serious discussion would eventually start. I kind 
of burn out on the "well my instructor back in 198x or 1999 said thhis 
was old hat" and even more outright rumours that sound like people who 
get their information from Hollywood movies that no real encryptionb 
systems exist becaus they are all compromised etc. etc. etc.

Have Fun,
Sends Steve


Bob Radvanovsky wrote:

> See comments below.  -rad
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Horsfall" <dave () horsfall org>
> To: "Full Disclosure List" <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk>
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 3:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] complaints about the governemnt spying!
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>  
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> > On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Stan Bubrouski wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> > > > safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Jefferson, 1759).
> > > >        
> > > That's actually a Benjamin Franklin quote, which is worded about 1000
> > > different ways depending on the source.
> > >      
> > The above is close; the main points are "essential liberty" and "a little
> > temporary safety".
> >    
>
> In your example case of aphorisms, you are correct.  One is from over 200
> years ago, the other less than 40.
>
>  
>
> > In the meantime, perhaps some, umm, US patriot could tell me who authored
> > these particular aphorisms:
> >
> > "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
> > patriots and tyrants."
> >    
>
> This was quoted from General Hummel (actor Ed Harris) from the movie, "The
> Rock", and was a paraphrased quote from Thomas Jefferson
> (http://www.monticello.org/reports/quotes/liberty.html)
>
>  
>
> > "The Tree of Islam has to be watered with the blood of martyrs."
> >    
>
> This was quoted from the Ayatollah Khomeini in the late 70's/early 80's,
> probably just before the uprising within Iran.
>
>  
>
> > I'm having trouble seeing the difference.
> >
> > -- Dave, who is not pro-US, so therefore has to be anti-US, according to
> >    
> Shrub
>  
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