The action
Northern Virginia technology entrepreneur Jerry Lucas hosted his first trade show for makers of surveillance gear at the McLean Hilton in May 2002. Thirty-five people attended.
Nine years later, Lucas holds five events annually across the world, drawing hundreds of vendors and thousands of potential buyers for an industry that he estimates sells $5 billion of the latest tracking, monitoring and eavesdropping technology each year. Along the way these events have earned an evocative nickname: The Wiretappers’ Ball.
The products of what Lucas calls the “lawful intercept” industry are developed mainly in Western nations such as the United States but are sold throughout the world with few restrictions. This burgeoning trade has alarmed human rights activists and privacy advocates, who call for greater regulation because the technology has ended up in the hands of repressive governments such as those of Syria, Iran and China.
The reaction
People are saying:
1) Who is the Fish and Wildlife Service going to wire tap, Smokey the Bear?
2) HHHHMMMMM....just curious how this ranks up there with the USA being one of the largest exporters of weapons in the world?
America the king of killing and maiming and as well the king of exporting weapons of death and destruction..............
3) When ________ is outlawed, only outlaws will have ________.
Q: What do you do when the outlaws are Governments ?
a. Lie low and get rich before those do-good-ers are the UN notice.
b. Make _______ ownership a Sacrament.
c. Subvert your own Government to maintain Safe Harbor and to heck with the wogs overseas.
d. All of the above.
4) Well said ticked! How bad is this report? Allow me to paraphrase... "OMG! U.S. companies spend billions of dollars producing software which easily allows illegal activities to occur by unscrupulous tyrants in the middle east!" How about we control the tyrants in Washington first before we blame all this "evil" on Syria, Iran and China? Wake up people. It is what lies to your face that you need to fear the most.
5) Looks to me like this communication has been intercepted and tampered with. And perhaps that should be a concern.
For with all the intercepts that are possible today, who's to say what the original message actually looked like right ?
Cause to me I see the potential for a replay of the whisper game. You know, where the original message gets changed a couple of times from it's original form.
That isn't a problem is it ? ? ?
6) Surveillance products are reaching repressive governments, including our own.
7) Technology today is both a blessing and a curse, depending how it is used. Governments can use the same technology to catch criminals or to spy on and criminalize citizens. The recent monitoring of tweets during one of Kansas Governor Brownbacks speeches and subsequent demand for an apology from student Emma Sullivan for tweeting to her friends "Brownback sucks" is a good example of the abuse of technology.Employers use technology to supervise employees but this same technology can be used in agressive management practices which serve to pressure employees. Citizens should be aware of the possible misuses of technology. Laws need to be passed to protect privacy.
Northern Virginia technology entrepreneur Jerry Lucas hosted his first trade show for makers of surveillance gear at the McLean Hilton in May 2002. Thirty-five people attended.
Nine years later, Lucas holds five events annually across the world, drawing hundreds of vendors and thousands of potential buyers for an industry that he estimates sells $5 billion of the latest tracking, monitoring and eavesdropping technology each year. Along the way these events have earned an evocative nickname: The Wiretappers’ Ball.
The products of what Lucas calls the “lawful intercept” industry are developed mainly in Western nations such as the United States but are sold throughout the world with few restrictions. This burgeoning trade has alarmed human rights activists and privacy advocates, who call for greater regulation because the technology has ended up in the hands of repressive governments such as those of Syria, Iran and China.
The reaction
People are saying:
1) Who is the Fish and Wildlife Service going to wire tap, Smokey the Bear?
2) HHHHMMMMM....just curious how this ranks up there with the USA being one of the largest exporters of weapons in the world?
America the king of killing and maiming and as well the king of exporting weapons of death and destruction..............
3) When ________ is outlawed, only outlaws will have ________.
Q: What do you do when the outlaws are Governments ?
a. Lie low and get rich before those do-good-ers are the UN notice.
b. Make _______ ownership a Sacrament.
c. Subvert your own Government to maintain Safe Harbor and to heck with the wogs overseas.
d. All of the above.
4) Well said ticked! How bad is this report? Allow me to paraphrase... "OMG! U.S. companies spend billions of dollars producing software which easily allows illegal activities to occur by unscrupulous tyrants in the middle east!" How about we control the tyrants in Washington first before we blame all this "evil" on Syria, Iran and China? Wake up people. It is what lies to your face that you need to fear the most.
5) Looks to me like this communication has been intercepted and tampered with. And perhaps that should be a concern.
For with all the intercepts that are possible today, who's to say what the original message actually looked like right ?
Cause to me I see the potential for a replay of the whisper game. You know, where the original message gets changed a couple of times from it's original form.
That isn't a problem is it ? ? ?
6) Surveillance products are reaching repressive governments, including our own.
7) Technology today is both a blessing and a curse, depending how it is used. Governments can use the same technology to catch criminals or to spy on and criminalize citizens. The recent monitoring of tweets during one of Kansas Governor Brownbacks speeches and subsequent demand for an apology from student Emma Sullivan for tweeting to her friends "Brownback sucks" is a good example of the abuse of technology.Employers use technology to supervise employees but this same technology can be used in agressive management practices which serve to pressure employees. Citizens should be aware of the possible misuses of technology. Laws need to be passed to protect privacy.
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