On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 10:44 -0500, John Hasler wrote:

> 
> > Or that a government that murders people...
> 
> I.e., the usual kind.

Yes we all hear about how Uganda has fleets of drones stationed in
countries throughout the world killing people. There is nothing special
about America.

> 
> > ...wouldn't consider an OS that millions of people use worth looking
> > at?
> 
> Court orders (or just men with guns from governments that don't bother
> with courts) are sufficient to get them what they want from commercial
> servers, which is all they care about.
> 
> Governments just don't give a damn about your desktop.  Sorry if that
> bruises your ego.  They may be interested in your email and Websurfing
> in the unlikely event that you are a "person of interest", but they can
> get that from your provider.
> 
> -- 
> John Hasler 
> jhas...@newsguy.com
> Elmwood, WI USA
> 
> 

If they don't care then how come they bother to go to the provider? By
using VPNs my provider rarely has any idea what I am doing. I do not
believe that I am some special person the government just has to know
all about, but I am concerned that it is convinced it has the right to
comb through and index everything everyone does on-line. 



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