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From: sierchio@milano.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Keywords
Message-ID: <3322@milano.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 10:23:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 12 10:23:51 1987
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Keywords: animation, EGA, IBM, PC
Summary: NSA

In article <339@watcgl.UUCP>, ksbooth@watcgl.UUCP writes:
> A recent posting contained a list of keywords to trigger some NSA filter.
> People who do this should realize that if NSA is actually running such a
> filter, they are also probably keeping a list of the articles and all of
> the responses to it.  Thus people who reply to such articles may end up
> on a list that could be used against them.  The list of junk keywords is
> cute, but when it jeopardizes people's professional or personal lives (as
> such things inevitably do) or the continued existence of open networks
> people should think carefully before engaging in this sort of baiting.
> Attitudes at NSA may well need changing, but this is not the appropriate
> way to do it.


Look, friend -- Your liberties are already endangered by such surveillance.
If you don't want what you post read by the NSA, you should ask them to
please not do so, and see if that helps. Somehow, I don't think they'd
take you seriously. Stop being so powerless. Are we not men? Women?
Are we NEMATODES, or other invertebrates?

Any attempt to occupy their time with normal, upstanding, good citizens
such as myself I regard as good -- I have nothing to hide, and how do
I know they don't keep such a file on everybody? If they are foolish
enough to waste their time here, let them. I read it, you read it.

You are hopelessly naive if you believe they only read articles that
refer to the agency itself.  They will read whatever's of interest to
them on any given day. Or random  articles.

Who's gonna use this against me, comrade?  Until I decide to take up
a life of crime, I want this to be seen by one and all, and I don't want
to exclude the poor slobs at the NSA, CIA, FBI or KGB.

This is a public forum, and you are accountable for what you say here --
to me and everyone else. So, my advice is to treat them as you would any
other reader of the net news. And, if you're concerned about them
keeping tabs on you, and consider it a violation of your rights, take
it up with your congressman -- or do something yourself. And come out from
under that rock.



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