The phone rang. A lady inquired if we provided services to people
with "sight troubles". I said we did, and what was her name. She
countered by asking who I worked for, and could I provide her with
proof that we were a legitimate organization. After over half an hour
of talking, she decided to meet with us. But not at her home. We
settled on the senior center in Sequim. Several days later Cathy and
I met with this very charming lady. Once she met us, she decided we
were okay. Only then did she provide us with a last name and an
address, along with her birth date. Most certainly Cathy and I do not
blame our clients, the majority of whom are elderly single women,
from taking precautions There are many, many clever predators circling
like sharks, looking for ways of making off with the life savings of
others.
But even as this client made certain she knew who she was dealing
with, she had not a clue that her entire life was accessible through
her cell phone and her computer. Think of it as someone putting bars
up at their front door and windows, but leaving the back door
unlocked.
Anyone believing that they are safe because they have never broken the
law are deceiving themselves. Anyone reading this note will have
already compromised their privacy and lost some of their personal
freedom.
What amazing times we live in. Excuse me while I go through my house
and check my back door.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/23/16, S. Kashdan <skashdan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
I think that the issue is definitely not the government getting hold of what
is on one iPhone, which was confiscated a while ago, but getting the legal
sanction for breaking into all cell phones of any one of us, and keeping
track of what each of us are doing or talking about, or what those we
communicate with may be doing or talking about with others, even if it
doesn't involve the person whose cell phone was broken into...
Also, sadly, interrogating people in person may or may not produce true
information, since most people can be intimidated into saying whatever
interrogators want to hear sooner or later. There are a lot of people who
are in prison in this country, convicted of both non-political and political
crimes, because of forced confessions. So interrogation of captured suspects
shouldn't necessarily be expected to be a meaningful alternative to breaking
into cell phones.
For justice and peace,
Sylvie
from Carl Jarvis:
The actions of the FBI in searching for ways of sneaking into all our
private on-line conversations, should scare the sox off us all. The
trouble is that we are dealing with something outside the average
citizen's experience. If we were to elect a crazy president, and
after assuming office he ordered the military to attack all our major
cities, we would rise up in alarm and anger, doing what we had to do
in order to protect ourselves. But when the attack comes from outer
space...the internet, we are unable to see that the end result will be
the same.
Carl Jarvis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martian.Lady" <martian.lady@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:28 AM
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy] Yediot Achronot: Israeli
Tech Company is ‘Outside Source’ Offering to Hack Terrorist’s iPhone for
FBI
HI
Perhaps this wouldn't be as much of a problem if the powers that be
weren't so quick to kill anyone who is a terrorist. Perhaps we could learn
more from a live person than a cell phone.
Marsha
