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Re: GNU/Linux Advice for Replacing Microsoft Skype (with PATRIOT Act Spying)

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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Thursday 07 Jul 2011 22:01 : \____

> JeffM wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> Book of Job wrote:
>>>Skype was based in Europe until 2005.  Since that time, its owners
>>>have included (American company) eBay which (which still owns
>>>30% of the company).  Much of the remaining 70% appears to have
>>>been purchased by (American company) Silver Lake Partners.
>>>Skype will soon be changing hands to (American company) Microsoft.
>>>
>>>So I ask, once again, is there something specific to Skype which
>>>allows for "PATRIOT Act Spying"?  Or is this simply FUD?
>>>
>> American jackboots have been doing this non-legal stuff for decades.
>>
>> The closeted homosexual, J. Edgar Hoover,
>> got his jollies peering into other people's bedrooms
>> as well as deploying numerous other (completely illegal)
>> surveillance methods against people who he couldn't show
>> had broken any specific law (John Lennon, Martin Luther King).
>>
>> In the USA's anti-commie frenzy, it installed a loosie-goosie method
>> whereby "law enforcement" types could go back THREE DAYS LATER
>> and get back-dated search warrants.
>> http://google.com/search?tbs=dfn:1&q=FISA
>>
>> In its latest efforts in rushing toward authoritarianism,
>> this time using "terrorism"[1] as its justification,
>> the USA has completely done away with ANY resemblance
>> to "due process of law".
>> http://google.com/search?q=PATRIOT-Act+warrantless
>>
>> If your communications pass thru the USA
>> (even if no party to that is actually *in* the USA),
>> you can be sure your words are being recorded.
>> How much of that raw data can possibly be **analyzed**
>> remains as a puzzle to be worked out by those trying to explain
>> the workings of the minds of those who daily expand
>> the modern surveillance state about which Orwell warned us.
>> .
>> .
>> [1] If you want to find some terrorists,
>> go to Fort Benning, Georgia, USA.
>> They are trained in their craft there.
>> http://google.com/search?q=%22.School.of.the.Americas%22
> 
> I was listening to a security lecture awhile back, and the guy talked about
> countries that people were afraid of due to cracker/surveillance/exploits.
> 
> The top two, he said, were the U.S. and China.  In that order.

Look up TOPSEC in China, esp. in relation to Microsoft.

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