Posted on 10/30/2010 11:15:16 PM PDT by misanthrope
(Excerpt) Uber is the Executive Director of a highly secretive group called Project Vigilant, which, as Greenberg writes, "monitors the traffic of 12 regional Internet service providers" and "hands much of that information to federal agencies." More on that in a minute. Uber revealed yesterday that Lamo, the hacker who turned in Manning to the federal government for allegedly confessing to being the WikiLeaks leaker, was a "volunteer analyst" for Project Vigilant; that it was Uber who directed Lamo to federal authorities to inform on Manning by using his contacts to put Lamo in touch with the "highest level people in the government" at "three letter agencies"; and, according to a Wired report this morning, it was Uber who strongly pressured Lamo to inform by telling him (falsely) that he'd likely be arrested if he failed to turn over to federal agents everything he received from Manning.
Please note the link at the bottom of the article, which brings you to this:
“But over the past several days, I’ve become convinced that Uber’s claims about his group are wildly exaggerated, rendering my concerns about it largely misguided and unwarranted.”
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/05/surveillance/index.html
There is no right to privacy and the government nor the average citizen really cares about it EXCEPT when it comes to abortion, then suddenly it became this huge Constitutional right....... or better said, a facade argument.
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