OT Celebration (Not intended to be offensive, possible humor)

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Fri Jul 6 13:40:24 2001

>I for one don't have a problem with that but it would be easy (prehaps too
>easy) for the system to be abused or be modified to be invasive to law
>abiding citizens.

Exactly. LEOs are people too, and a percentage of them are bad people. Some
are good people doing things badly. Consider the Santa Cruz police
department illegally scanning all cellular phone traffic in a area where
they believed protest organizers _might_ be using cell phones to
co-ordinate. Never mind that you need a court order to listen in on
someone's phone call. Ref: San Jose Mercury news.

If you believe an honest citizen (or police officer) is someone who hasn't
yet had a big enough temptation to become a criminal, then opening up a
free candy store (as things like Carnivore are) in front of them is just
plain bad policy.

--Chuck
Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 13:40:24 BST