Date: 08/22/2003 03:15 PM
From: M. Sheets ([email protected])
Subject: Feds Want to Track the Homeless
Which is worse: guaranteed abuse of all private information if tracking is permitted or possible abuse (such "double dipping") by a few people if tracking is not used? I doubt there is a single instance where government tracking of personal information has not been abused, even if you don't include the "reasonable" exceptions for safety's sake ("Feds Want to Track the Homeless," Aug. 21, 2003).
"Hey, buddy, you have access to that database right? Can you see if such and such person is in it and.…?"
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Date: 08/23/2003 10:11 AM
From: uber_folkmadchen ([email protected])
Subject: Feds Want to Track the Homeless
Get ready to have your taxes raised in order to pay for the "internment" camps ("Feds Want to Track the Homeless," Aug. 21, 2003).
Disgusting. My government should be concerned with the disintegration of our society, the wars we are engaging in, folks at home who have lost jobs, and large companies who default and steal our well-earned money. The mentally ill need and have private agencies (in desperate need of government support) with their own nightmarish bureaucracy established to help these unfortunate folks. I'm 18 and I want my country back!
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Date: 08/22/2003 09:49 AM
From: Chris ([email protected])
__Subject: Patriot Act II Resurrected? __
This Victory Act is nothing but a ploy to combine two increasingly less-popular "wars" into one war that will place enough fear in the hearts of Americans that they will no longer be able to support drug legalization without instantaneous annihilation by government officials, who according to the Victory Act, would have the power to listen to any and all conversations on any wireless phone in America ("Patriot Act II Resurrected?," Aug. 21, 2003).
Big Brother would have some positive statements to make about the Victory Act, and I'm sure some of the world's more successful dictators wouldn't object, but I, and many other citizens of this country, do object.
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Date: 08/26/2003 10:38 AM
From: Joe Darden ([email protected])
__Subject: BlackBerry Reveals Bank's Secrets __
Just a little FYI on the BlackBerry: If a company has implemented a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, it has the ability to erase all of the data off of the device wirelessly. This means managers do not have to get the device back to erase it; it can be erased remotely ("BlackBerry Reveals Bank's Secrets," Aug. 25, 2003).
Any IT department at a company that is as security conscious as Morgan Stanley should be, would have the correct administrative tools in place.
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