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FC: Neil Munro on the societal costs of total UNsurveillance
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 12:15:50 -0400
Previous Politech message: "The societal costs of total surveillance, from NYT" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03828.html --- From: "Munro, Neil" <nmunro () nationaljournal com> To: "'declan () well com'" <declan () well com> Subject: RE: The societal costs of total surveillance, from NYT Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:21:31 -0400 The societal cost of total un-surveillance; Atta asked a government official if he could buy a large overhead photograph of D.C. from the official's wall. He then suggested the U.S. cities might be attacked, told the official that Osama/Al-Qaeda would be famous in America, and then left in a huff when the official refused to lend him money which he said was to buy a large, two-engine crop dusting airplane. You can likely find a psychiatrist who would conclude that Atta likely, but subconsciously, wanted to be caught. But the official said nothing. Privacy, non-judgementalism and all that. The war began. The Patriot Act was passed. Surely we can find a reasonable middle-ground. Neil ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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