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To: philv who wrote (19991)1/3/2004 2:53:02 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) of 81986
 
Phil > Anything is possible when government agencies spy on people. What's next? A knock on the door?

Could be. I have lived through a time in SA when that happened all the time. Anyway, people are either naive or stupid to believe that things they write on the internet are "private". I can assure you that everything I write on this thread I do in the firm belief that some or other government agency, in the US, SA or anywhere, could get hold of it. But I also know that these are busy people and they don't waste their time with "conspiracy freaks". Anyway, W and his bunch couldn't give a stuff what anyone thinks.

>>> In many cases, the entire contents of a person’s computer can be siphoned out and transferred to a massive database in Virginia for further analysis and additional counter intelligence measures.

It is estimated that various US government agencies have gathered over 700 trillion pages of information on American citizens during the past decade alone that is stored on magnetic tapes and online storage information retrieval systems.<<<

I found this so amusing. One can just imagine the rubbish that the database holds. And pity the poor fellow who has to sift through it. No wonder they get so many false alarms and screw up on the real McCoy. There is a well-known expression which applies to computer databases --- garbage in, garbage out. I suppose that expression could also apply to governments.
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