http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/01/securitymatters_0124
It was forwarded as a Cryptogram email to our non work list.
As much as I'm online, monitoring all of my activity would be
comparable to having a police officer follow me everywhere all day,
every day. except for maybe when I'm in the bathroom.
Granted, as much as I'm online, I don't do anything illegal (that I
know of). So theoretically I have nothing to worry about. Except for
the fact that I'm outspoken and ethnically ambiguous. Even though for
all my outspokenness most of what I say is relatively innocuous.
On the "ethnically ambiguous" comment, I've repeatedly been asked by
friends and complete strangers where they hell I'm from. Um the accent
doesn't tell you the USofA??? oh, but I have fuzzy dark hair, and I
don't quite look white, or black for that matter, so I must be from
somewhere other than Here. For the record, my father was born in
Puerto Rico, as were his parents, and their parents, and their
parents... My mother is from MI and is of primarily Irish American
decent - so generations and generations and generations of my family
are all natural born American citizens, thankyouverymuch, as am I ...
Just because I haven't experienced prejudice outside of family members
making ignorant comments, doesn't mean I believe it doesn't exist or
couldn't eventually hurt me. But maybe I have that attitude, because I
was partially raised by a Puerto Rican from Phillie. My dad quizzed us
on current politicians to ensure that we knew the answers if our
citizenship was ever questioned. Annoying. very annoying. but, I
wonder why he felt it was necessary. Maybe because he was a dark
skinned Latino in Texas...
Anyway back on topic... This shit is scary. Not the fact that their
trying to do it. but the fact that most people believe they have to
give up their privacy and liberties. It seems only the 'geeks' and
'radicals' seem to get it. Mainstream everybody, well they're willing
to let us go to hell in a handbasket because they are afraid of
getting blown up. even though they're more likely to get hit by a
drunk driver...
Of course, our country is set up so we can pull ourselves out of the
cliche Orwellian murk. And we have in the past. Hopefully we do so in
the future, as well (though now would be preferable). That's the one
thing that separates us from the police states people like to compare
us to. We're set up to fix it relatively peacefully. One of the many
things to love about our country.
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