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they even know it yet?

(Suddenly some people are trying to think back to whether they ever said
something in private they would greatly regret being made public: that
would be 99.9% of all telephone users. Too late.)


ECHELON is infinitely abusable, and has been repeatedly abused.

Our phone conversations are too personal, too unguarded.

About four years ago my phone rang. It wasn't the normal ring, more of a
couple dings. I picked up and could hear someone talking in addition to
hearing my dial-tone. I pushed a digit now and then to get rid of the dial
tone and keep the line open while I listened.

It was a daughter relating a story to her mother about how she had managed
to let herself have sex with one of her two roommates.

With another girl. And that it has caused complications in the living
arrangements.

It turned out her mother was homosexual too. (technically bi-sexual)

It was a fascinating conversation on my phone line.

When it was over, I called my own number from another of my lines and told
her she'd better cont


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