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What Howard Kurtz means by "media scrutiny"
The media critic for CNN and the Washington Post demands more scrutiny of Obama and then lists the most scurrilous right-wing attacks as "issues" needing more attention.
Glenn Greenwald [2008-03-03]

  • sysprog @ 01:46 AM

    As always, excellent work. I think the issue that "essentially you don't know where the recipient is going to be" is applicable to all stored internet communications. With internet proxies, real time communication is also subject to the same issue of locating the sender and receiver.

    I swear, the government's problem seems to be a bunch of tech illiterate old people complaining how hard spying is now that we have computers and the internet. People are no longer forced to use protocols dictated by a handful of communications monopolies and the government is in a panic. How sweet they have had it in the past and how hard the future will be. What the hell are they going to do about encryption?

    A attempted definition: Data mining is the belief that increased data sets and advancements in the predictive ability of artificial intelligence will overcome encryption and the ability of individuals to write communications software.

    -- thelastnamechosen
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    Tuesday, March 4, 2008 10:46 AM
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