NSA Email Surveillance - keep safe everyone.

[Honkey_Kong]

Anything you don't want anyone else to know about should not be in writing. It's been that way since man learned to write. Instead of clay tablets we have the internet. 50 years from now it will be something else. I'm ok with it, too. It's something I've been careful about since I had a 300 baud modem on my C64 connecting to 'underground' bbs's. Before that, I didn't pass notes in class that I didn't want the teacher to read.

Sysops respected their users privacy way more than the government does now. But it was always a fear of mine that the SPA would have a sweep in my area and take down a few boards then open all the emails and start tracing the phone lines taking everybody down in the area. You had to be careful of what you said because it could get in the wrong hands.

But we've grown used to this false sense of rights to privacy. The truth is we have no rights and so everything we say/do should be done carefully and underground if we want any chance of privacy.

[Java Man]

Sysops respected their users privacy way more than the government does now. But it was always a fear of mine that the SPA would have a sweep in my area and take down a few boards then open all the emails and start tracing the phone lines taking everybody down in the area. You had to be careful of what you said because it could get in the wrong hands.

But we've grown used to this false sense of rights to privacy. The truth is we have no rights and so everything we say/do should be done carefully and underground if we want any chance of privacy.

Yep. It's all about making people feel good, safe, protected. That's the game. Happy people are quiet people, they don't stir the pot. it's an illusion. Government is good at it. It's how those in power stay in power.