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AT&T jokes about warrantless wiretapping
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:22:15 -0700
________________________________________ From: Tom Fairlie [tfairlie () frontiernet net] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:08 AM To: David Farber Subject: AT&T jokes about warrantless wiretapping Hi Dave, (I credit The Consumerist for this story; others may have broken it first) Go to AT&T's Online Billing site and you can see their latest marketing push: http://www.consumer.att.com/onlinebilling/ It says: "Ms. Suspicious has nothing to hide. Well, she has a little to hide, but her love of Online Billing isn't one of them. She and the other Online Liberation Movement(sm) members have all made online billing work for them, whether they need simplicity, convenience, flexibility, or just peace of mind." It looks like AT&T wasn't satisfied just to poke fun at the Luddites who don't like to make financial transactions online (even if that *is* a relatively sane position). No, now they are making fun of people who are already online but value their privacy and/or their desire to keep at least some of their personal browsing ...ah... personal. Oh well. If President Bush can joke about missing WMDs [*] then why can't a simple telecom company joke about wiretapping? Tom Fairlie * http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/26/bush.wmd.jokes/index.html Full disclaimer: My shock over the Bush wiretapping scandal is somewhat less than Captain Renault's alarm over discovering that gambling was going on at the Casablanca. It's an open secret in the telecom business that the government has long had ears everywhere. ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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