Please take a few minutes to read the article linked below. It's not long, but it's long lasting. It's an article about privacy. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's a consiracy. It's not science fiction. It's nonfiction. It's not a possibility. It's real. It's not in the future. It's here. Remember your first y2k sleepless night ? Connecting the dots in the dark? For every dot you connected, three more burst into your brain? If you started connecting dots over 2 years ago, it was frightening-- there weren't enough people connecting dots to have a decent picnic. You knew then that it was impossible to finish it all in time. This article won't make you connect dots in the dark. It's too late for that. We cannot muster enough people to turn this back. It's too late. Accept it.

Privacy? Get over it

-- PNG (png@gol.com), May 30, 1999

Answers

Thanks PNG,

Sort'a knew that. Oh well, probably goes both ways.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), May 30, 1999.

George Orwell was a TRULY amazing man. Even if he did miss the exact year by a bit. To have been able to see the future with that clarity, at that time, with that little evidence is amazing.

-Greybear

-- Got Secrets?

-- Greybear (greybear@home.com), May 30, 1999.

Precisely why they are so PISSED at PGP. You set your key and you can make it ANY LENGTH (within reason, but 1K I think is about how far it goes).

Pluys there aren't any back doors here (which is why there was that court case a bit ago)

C

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), May 30, 1999.

Three men can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

-Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanac

-- Arlin H. Adams (ahadams@ix.netcom.com), May 30, 1999.

Arlin,

If I understand the " dictionary " part of the system, it looks for key words, such as gun, tnt, shoot, kill, etc, then when it finds the key words, draws a human's attention to the message ( such as this post )

Seems like the system would over load if everyone just added a key word to every post or e-mail, then went on with their biz

-- CT (ct@no.yr), May 30, 1999.

PNG, Thanks for that link.Its horrible.Glad I haven't got anything to hide.

-- Eye Spy with my little Eye a (griffen@globalnet.co.uk), May 30, 1999.

PNG,

I had read that article from your site a few days back and had intended to comment here on it, but as usual, events overtook me and things didn't play out as I had hoped.

I would think that such technology in the hands of one with the moral purity of Christ, Buddha or Mohammed or perhaps the wisdom of Solomon could be a boon to humankind. In the hands (even vicariously) of such as "Slick Willy", it makes many aspects of InfoMagic's visions seem rather benign.

-- Hardliner (searcher@internet.com), May 30, 1999.

I find it interesting that with all the capabilities that are available to our intelligence agencies today, we still see such major blunders as failing to detect Bin Laden's attack against our embassies or China's decade-long campaign to steal our nuclear weapons secrets. I mean, if the NSA et al can't use such sophisticated technology to prevent our nation's most valuable information from getting into the wrong hands, then I guess the average Joe has little to worry about . . . at least for now.

-- David (David@BankPacman.com), June 01, 1999.