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Re: FBI sought approval to use spyware against terror suspects

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:34:16 +0100, Hadron wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> ____/ [H]omer on Monday 11 February 2008 10:26 : \____
>>
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Martha Adams spake thusly:
>>> 
>>>> Using spyware against terror suspects seems innocuous and appropriate
>>>> enough, at first glance.  However.  I just Googled on 'Merton peace
>>>> terrorists' to find one of those things about slippery words, and the
>>>> slippery people who use them.  It's about the Merton Center, a few
>>>> years back.  It seems they were classified as terrorists, because
>>>> they were "...a left-wing organization advocating, among many
>>>> political causes, pacifism."
>>> 
>>> Exactly. Once one allows the government to arbitrarily redefine the
>>> meaning of "terrorist" for their own purposes, then no one is safe.
>>> "Terrorist" is the new "Communist". It's HUAC hysteria all over again.
>>                           ^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> /s/government/Microsoft/ 
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> What is that search engine thing? It seems incomplete.
> 
> I hope you document it better than that Othello for Windows project you
> are pimping.

I showed that to a friend of mine.
WTF? was his reply.

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