from SLM News Blog:
3:05 PM (8 hours ago)Union government allies ban Blackberries and morefrom SLMNews Blog by Pat H.It should come as no surprise to anyone that allies of the US government are totalitarian, after all the US government has allied itself with the most murderous governments on the planet time after time.
Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's Peoples Republic of China, and those in the article below.
The Obama administration's war on privacy
Everyone should keep in mind that there's not been an administration in the 20th and now the 21st centuries that has curbed domestic spying in any meaningful way.
"the following week, The New York Times published an Op-Ed by Richard Falkenrath -- a top-level Homeland Security official in the Bush administration and current principal in the private firm of former Bush DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff -- expressing support for the UAE's Blackberry ban. Falkenrath asserted that "[a]mong law enforcement investigators and intelligence officers [in the U.S.], the Emirates’ decision met with approval, admiration and perhaps even a touch of envy." New Internet technologies -- including voice-over-Internet calls (such as Skype) and text messaging -- are increasingly difficult for governments to monitor, and Falkenrath noted, correctly, that the UAE "is in no way unique in wanting a back door into the telecommunications services used inside its borders to allow officials to eavesdrop on users."
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