Wire-tapping

Wire tapping

Eaves dropping

Patriot Act

Privacy

FISA

Watergate

Constitution has trouble defining technology

Phone company Supervisors

Freedom of speech

Taping phonecalls by one side

Wearing a wire

Bugs

AMerican embassy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic_microphone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone


• In 2001, the government of the People's Republic of China announced that it had discovered twenty-seven bugs in a Boeing 767 purchased as an official aircraft for President Jiang Zemin.



EAVESDROPPING!!

I did a little reading on the ideas of eavesdropping and even in then Roman times it was considered wrong to listen to other people and had laws against it. Usually it was fairly minor punishment for it and some of the laws still exist in different countries but almost never is it enforced.

Listening – overhearing.
This is where it starts with.
If two people are having a conversation right in front of you, are you allowed to listen to it and use that information?

Can you go on your blog and say you know what they are working on in Microsoft because two guys sat next to you? What if someone leaves the laptop in front of you and the font is big?

Let’s move to doing it on purpose. Listening with intent.
You know your competitors are sitting there and you go sit beside them. Listen to their info without revealing who you are.

Parabolic microphone – police started using it and others. They are across the street and they point the microphone in through the window. It is just magnifying the sound (information) and it serves exactly the same thing as binoculars are doing for vision. Binoculars are just taking available lighit and magnifying it.

So is it illegal? Is it wrong to look at your suspects from across the streets? You are innocent until proven guilty.

So look, the point of government observing its citizens is this that they find out a lot of information about everyone but it just sits in a file. They don’t care if you are breaking the law. Not yet. They have just got the information. Many people are breaking the law, many people are not paying taxes. What they do is that they just collect information on everyone.

When does it matter what you’ve done?
It matters when you get on their radar. There are millions of people but only few are on the radar.

What could put them on radar?
Dramatic crime.
Going against goverment policy.
Crimes against a big business.

Potential Abuse of Power By The State Scenerio

Information is used against you when it's useful to do so. If you are on the right side, it is less likely to go against you. But if you start being a problem then that information can be important and more information will be collected about you. They’ll start focusing more on you. If you are lucky, all they will do is come and approach you and say ‘we have things on you’. They don’t even have to tell you what they have and how they got it and you might think – ‘this thing I did 5 years ago’ but they don’t want you in jail. They just want to stop opposing them. Its not the individual that matters but the population in general.



There was a point in 90s and they had a 5% market share and they still do. No..computers. And somewhere around 1992, for some reason, it started really catching fire in Japan and every year their percentage of market share went up to like 15%...! About 1996, they got to 18% market share! For personal computers! In 93, I was looking to change jobs and umm…I did get a job. At the time apple had a large building in Yoyogi. They had a glass building with their logo.

I went to this building to give them my resume and say I want to work for you apple. You know what they said they had 18% of the personal computers market share well you know we only have 300 employees here. Imagine THAT!!! 18% market share and 300 people.


I know Watergate scandal.

The water gate csandal went like this. In 72, there was a presidential election. Richard Nixon was still involved in Vietnam War. And the republicans had mad ea big issue about the democarst that the democrats had gotten into Vietnman for 5 years and Nixon said that ‘any prez you can’t get you out of a war is not a good prez’. So…umm Nixon was set up to win pretty big – he was going against very liberal senator from North Dakota. He was seriously going to win. So but for some reason, they were really into dirty tricks. Now for eg. I am talking about ordering 30 pizzas for democratic nationals and sending it to them even though they didn’t order it and having them pay for it. This is the way elections win. It was just understood that. So now what happened was that its also happening in Japan now. What’s considered OK and what’s not. Its catching some people off guard. Politicians who follow in other politicians footsteps – doing same kind of manipulation. Rules were always there and certainly the mood of people is changing and look ‘eh’s breaking all these rules’ and politicians say ‘we always broke the rules’. That’s not a good defence. So what happened was …

There was an advisor to the democrats. He was seeing a psychiatrist and what they did was…about 4 guys broke into psychiatrist’s office but they screwd it up and got caught. They got caught doing it. There were other people but umm these guys got arrested and republican party tried to help these guys because they were working for him. Hired lawyers too fast. They thought it was going to be a small little gag thing and with good lawyers they would get off but what happened is it got connected too fast to republicans and eventually Nixon. But it was never proven…but then “ability to deny knowledge” and what you do is you give power to people. The people above don’t know what people below are doing it. They were never able to say that ‘he knew in advance’ but they were able to find out after he had been caught but now the prez of USA is aware of it. Instead he participated in hiding the information. Usually politicians get in trouble for covering crimes. Now the latest scandal is about congressman who was sending messages to boys. Some of the information was hidden and they didn’t act on it.

Holding this information for few months and waiting right now to deliver it by surprise~! Guy incharge of election for republicans, has always brought up something in october.

There were four years of audiotapes recording everything that was said in oval office.

The president bugged himself.

I wanna talk about the telephone company. The telephone company had operators. The telephone company was called BELL.

This is what happened at the phone company. The operators all have headsets and they are connected into systems and when people call and ask for information. We are going back in the past btw. Back in the 70s, 80s you talk to a real person. Not a computer. They had espestos in the building. The supervisors were also into the system. So if there was a problem that she couldn’t handle so umm that was one of the things – one of the reasons for that loop so that the supervisor was able to listen in to handle the calls to watch new people to make sure they were doing the right thing. But it certainly was allowed for supervisor to listen in as you dealt with different people – that’s cool. That’s understandable. But what happened was that between calls you had a free moment and I imagine they were all women and if your friend was not taking a friend either then you could talk to your friend. What happened was the supervisor was still listening eventually someone said something that got in trouble. The person who got fired said that the supervisor didn’t have a right to act on the information. The phone company was saying ‘you work for us all day and we are allowed to listen on our equipment at any time’ and it went all the way to Supreme courts. Not the toilets.

Recording was bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was having an affair with Monica Lewinsky. Can I give you the tape problem? She made friend with his woman Linda Trip. She was old and ugly. Linda Trip got pushed out of her job in the pentagon because no one liked her and her connection to republicans went back to 72s. how could monica think she was her friend?

In the state of Maryland you cannot record a telephone conversation. It is unfair to do so. She knew all along. She was told it was illegal but she still made a 7th recording. And the 7th recording, they tried to arrest her.

Next time we will talk about SECRET SERVICE.