Re: (Fwd) ECHELON spamming is harmful

[Robb Bromley <jedibird@lwgn.com>]

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Just one question for myself, could be a very stupid one.

I keep seeing headlines about the NSA running out of resources to deal with
the amount of information they have gathered.  Anyone buy this?  Personally,
I'm a bit skeptical.

-robbo

Legba Carrefour wrote:

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> I disagree. As has been pointed out by many people, the real value of
> the ECHELON spamming was publicity. Pretty much everyone realizes that
> we really can't jam the stupid thing. The point is that we are engaging
> in an act of civil disobedience. It was a protest, the final result of
> which was to heighten public knowledge of what was going on.
>
> The press was all over this sucker. I recall reading in like 20 online
> publications about the event, and the articles were all followed by
> discussion of ECHELON and encryption laws in this country. Offline, in
> the popular press, I saw some segments on the national news and in major
> newspapers.
>
> The washington post did three stories about the protest, then like 4
> stories about ECHELON and the NSA, and then there was a major opinion
> pubished in the posts Sunday Outlook section (the op/ed section of the
> sunday paper) attacking the NSA and a lot of other security
> establishments.
>
> Legba Carrefour <legba@atheist.com>
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