House and Senate Reject E-mail Surveillance 260
vena writes "The Star Tribune reports the House and Senate today agreed not to allow email surveillance of American citizens proposed by the Total Information Awareness program. Additionally, negotiators agreed to halt all future funding on the program without extensive consultation with Congress."
Excellent news! (Score:5, Funny)
Does this mean I can stop using PGP?
About time... (Score:2, Funny)
Suck on that, herr Ashcroft...
On second thought... (Score:5, Funny)
Too bad, they could have compared prices on herbal viagra.
I guess their... (Score:2, Funny)
Sense at last (Score:5, Funny)
No need to spy on my email.... (Score:1, Funny)
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Thank god... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Skewed perspective? (Score:5, Funny)
"Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., senior Democrat on the subcommittee, said of the program, "Jerry's against it, and I'm against it, so we kept the Senate amendment." Of the Pentagon, he said, "They've got some crazy people over there."
No shit.
What I really want to know is... (Score:5, Funny)
John Poindexter (Score:2, Funny)
"One important factor in the breadth of the opposition is the fact that the project is headed by retired Adm. John Poindexter. Several members of Congress have said he is an unwelcome symbol because he was convicted of lying to Congress when he was President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser. That his conviction was reversed on the grounds that he had been given immunity for the testimony in which he lied did not mitigate congressional opinion, they said."
Oh, suuuure you promise it wouldn't be used to violate citizens' privacy. We believe you.
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:2, Funny)
Who? Didn't Hussein blow up the Maine, shoot Archduke Ferdinand, stage the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, invade Poland, sneak attack Pearl Harbor, drop nukes on Japan, invade South Korea, cause the Gulf of Tonkin incident, run drugs into the US via Columbia, blow up the Marine barracks in Beirut, and shoot down TWA 800?
Does this mean I can stop running spook? (Score:5, Funny)
Does that mean I can stop doing this now? My coworkers think I chameleon man SWAT PGP JFK ANZUS top secret Cohiba USCODE Delta Force ASDIC virus assassination Noriega World Trade Center cryptanalysis have Tourettes.
Re:TIA clothing available... (Score:3, Funny)
When they say they want to know everything, they mean Everything.
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Jihad to Microsoft! Linux has risen in an explosive blaze of fury! I like VX works. Food tastes good with ricin it. Death to BUSH using new hedge trimmers. 90% off swedish made penis enlargers! (Which is what they're really looking for)
So Ashcroft wants to read my email? (Score:3, Funny)
If he really wants to read my email, I'm going to sign up for all the pr0n spam I can get. Let that puritanical a$$hole freak show and his Christian Soldiers(TM) sort through all the live cams, teen fetishes, fisting sessions, and goatse.cx pics they can get :)
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In a word . . . (Score:5, Funny)
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No.
Re:About time... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In a word . . . (Score:2, Funny)
I don't get what the big deal is... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In a word . . . (Score:4, Funny)
Re:About time... (Score:2, Funny)
In other news (Score:1, Funny)
Furthermore, the president has drafted a bill to ammend the constitutional right to free speech, as that is another major tool frequently employed by terrorists who seek to develope weapons of mass destruction. Henceforth, only communications approved by the Department of Homeland Security will be allowed by law.
yeah, but... (Score:5, Funny)
First Law of Slashdot (Score:1, Funny)
The First Law of Slashdot: When insulting someone's intelligence, you are required to fuck up your grammar or spelling, thus making the entire statement Alanis-ironic.
Re:Excellent news! (Score:1, Funny)
Easy. Just put "I'm a US citizen" in the subject line of all of your emails. That way they won't read the body of your email.