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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
they are not just tapping the phone lines, they are keeping a database of every single call made by every single american. long live fascism. lobg live freedom of speech and privacy and freedom from illegal search and seizure.
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the only way to combat this (...well aside from having some sort of democratic process by which the people have a say in what the government does... for real, and not in publicrelationsland.) is to exponentially increase the number of phone calls you make. conduct ALL of your human interaction on the phone. i don't care if the person is sitting next to you at a bar. use your cell phone. make conference calls, you can include the people on the dance floor in the conversation. when you do your grocery shopping, ask the cashier for her cell number and conduct the transaction over the phone. buy your neighborhood bum a super cheap phone and insist that next time he sees you come out of the gas station he call you to ask for change. in your free time, spam 1-800 numbers for customer service on products you do not own.
from a computing standpoint as well as legal standpoint, the strategy is simply. create such a massive amount of data for the feds to process that by the time they dig up some dirt on you, the statue of limitations on whatever they claim you did will have expired. unless you are actually planning on a career in suicide bombing, this can only work to your advantage. it's a variation on the classic crytpoanalysis trade off. the more secure your encryption, the longer it will be until some one breaks it (it will always eventually be broken.) in this scheme, the higher the volume of your cell phone traffic, the longer it will be (somewhat) secure.
...of course it couldn't hurt to put actual encryption on all of your phone calls while yr at it, or at least the ones it matters (and some of the ones it doesn't - just to throw the feds off.)
http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgpfone/
[edit: actually, since this is to some extent a disinformation scheme, you should use strong digital encryption only for things it doesn't matter for, like ordering pizza or chinese takeout. if you were going to (hypthetically) buy weed, you would use old school encryption, which you should be doing anyway:
"Hi, I'm called about an ad I saw in the paper for a landscaping job." (do you have any weed?)
"Yeah, what time can you come in for an interview?" (sure, how much do you want?)
"8 o'clock tomorrow works for me." (an eigth oz. ...or 3:30 = 3.5 g... whatever you worked out before hand.)]