AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Michael Haisley <mhaisley@g...> 
wrote:
> Ok, I've tried to let the topic die because it's well off topic, 
but I
> really think I should chime in.  Many people have brought up good 
and
> bad points of somthing like gmail.
> 
> You have to trust someone, I choose to trust google, as one of
> 500,000, I am far less likely to have a curious technician read my
> email than say a local isp with 150 users...  Google from the 
begining
> has disclosed how they do the adwords search, and that they don't 
pass
> information on to others, they have no incentive to lie here, just
> liability.  Many other ISPs & email providers are fairly open about
> what they can/will do, just read the user agreement for  Hotmail 
some
> time if your interested...  Essentually, everyone has the capability
> to read everything, that isn't encrypted, google is just honest 
about
> it, and the adwords are quite useful some times.


Not to sound too much like the Black Helocopter crowd but the US 
Federal Gov't has all your phone calls and all your e-mail archived.

That was put in place some 10-20 years ago.

Don't belive me ?  call a friend and discuss any major action of 
terrorism or against the major political leaders who are up for 
election shortly.

Popular Machanics did this some 4-5 years ago and was visited by men 
in Black.  They did an article on the key words and phrases and 
detailed the building where it all happens.

As I understand if you single out one it is a violation of individual 
rights, but if you do it to everybody it is allowed.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/military/2001/4/Spying_On_Us/p
rint.phtml/

They have run other articles over the years.  But, the covert 
operation has more supercomputers than all the rest of the world 
combined.  

I don't worry as my problems are more of how to pay my bills and what 
to get the wife for her Birthday.

Dave