Thursday, May 25, 2006

Attention Taliban

This is how the NSA is snooping into your telephone calls.

Guess you'll have to go back to old fashioned letters...or sending coded messages over AlJazeerah. But hey, that's how they did it in World War II...

But you know, the REAL danger is THIS

the same methods are also widely used by retailers, who assemble computerized collections of customers' purchases along with their names, addresses, income levels and other tidbits, giving businesses clues to people's buying habits on a giant scale...
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"They have no interest in doing anything malicious with the data, because their interest is economic," he said. "They don't want to harm you -- they want you to come back to them and shop."

Translation: Clinton and Bush couldn't find Osama Ben Laden, but Victoria Secret probably is monitoring his wives purchases and sending them sale catalogues...

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