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The
official and unofficial tapping of telephone lines is widespread.
In the United States for instance, the Communications Assistance For Law
Enforcement Act (CALEA) requires that all telephone and VoIP communications
be available for real-time wiretapping by Federal law enforcement and intelligence
agencies.... Two major telecommunications companies in the U.S.A.
— AT&T and Verizon — have contracts with the FBI, requiring them to
keep their phone call records easily searchable and accessible for Federal
agencies, in return for $1.8 million dollars per year.... Between
2003 and 2005, the FBI sent out more than 140,000 "National Security Letters"
ordering phone companies to hand over information about their customers'
calling and Internet histories. About half of these letters requested
information on U.S. citizens....
Human
agents are not required to monitor most calls. Speech-to-text software
creates machine-readable text from intercepted audio, which is then processed
by automated call-analysis programs, such as those developed by agencies
such as the Information Awareness Office, or companies such as Verint,
and Narus, which search for certain words or phrases, to decide whether
to dedicate a human agent to the call....
Law
enforcement and intelligence services in the United Kingdom and the United
States possess technology to remotely activate the microphones in cell
phones, by accessing phones' diagnostic/maintenance features, in order
to listen to conversations that take place near the person who holds the
phone....
Mobile
phones are also commonly used to collect location data. The geographical
location of a mobile phone (and thus the person carrying it) can be determined
easily (whether it is being used or not), using a technique known as multilateration
to calculate the differences in time for a signal to travel from the cell
phone to each of several cell towers near the owner of the phone....
A controversy has emerged in the United States over the legality of such
techniques, and particularly whether a court warrant is required....
Records for one carrier alone (Sprint), showed that in a given year
federal law enforcement agencies requested customer location data 8 million
times....![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Revolutions
Sam Aurelius Milam III
The
problem with revolutions is that, traditionally at least, they're organized
movements. Thus, they're bureaucracies. They have chains of
command. They have leaders and followers. The authority is
at the top. The leaders give the orders and the followers do as they're
told. Participation might be voluntary at first but it won't stay
that way for long, especially if a revolution succeeds. Any such
revolutionary movement, if successful, will replace the previous government
with a new government. Any differences between the two governments,
ultimately, will turn out to be a difference in name only. If liberty
is the goal, then organized revolutions are inherently a lost cause.
They succeed only in replacing one tyranny with another tyranny.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
The Disunited State of America
Sam Aurelius Milam III
They
misled us when, speaking of a revolutionary war, they said "United we stand.
Divided we fall." In fact, united we merely constitute another bureaucracy.
We will accomplish nothing more than to create the next government.
Freedom, liberty, and rights, don't arise from legislatures, courts, armies,
or documents. Governments are not established to secure them.
On the contrary, governments are established to regulate them and, thereby,
to destroy them. Freedom, liberty, and rights are created and enforced
when individuals exercise them. The only legitimate form of revolution
is personal. It's an attitude and it must be a lifelong and unconditional
commitment. It doesn't exist between activists. It exists between
a person's ears.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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