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Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:13:56 -0600
--On December 29, 2005 6:47:20 PM -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
It's not sad at all. It's the inevitable result of repeatedly lying about what the government is doing. The best example is the claim that they spy on libraries, which is what this man was taking advantage of. There's not a single word in the Patriot Act about libraries, but that doesn't stop its opponents from repeating the canard or the press from credulously repeating the canard.On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:23:21 PST, Anthony Rodgers said:I think it's the reputations of the media agencies that ran with the story that should suffer..... .... assuming, of course, that they had any to start with....The sad part is that the only reason the story had any legs at all because we believed it to be plausible behavior on the government's part.
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Federal agents' visit was a hoax Richard M. Smith (Dec 24)
- RE: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Larry Seltzer (Dec 24)
- Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Anthony Rodgers (Dec 29)
- Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 29)
- Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Anthony Rodgers (Dec 29)
- Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Paul Schmehl (Dec 29)
- Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 29)
- Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Paul Schmehl (Dec 29)
- Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Anthony Rodgers (Dec 29)
- RE: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Larry Seltzer (Dec 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Fergie (Dec 24)
- Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Fergie (Dec 29)
- Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax David LaPorte (Dec 29)
- Re[2]: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Pierre Vandevenne (Dec 29)
- Re: Re[2]: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Paul Schmehl (Dec 29)
- Re[2]: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Drsolly (Dec 30)
- Re[3]: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Pierre Vandevenne (Dec 30)
- Re: Re[2]: Federal agents' visit was a hoax Paul Schmehl (Dec 30)
- Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax David LaPorte (Dec 29)