Eleanor Eisenberg who spoke at the ASU
college of Law last night said the local 
police have told her they are monitoring 
the email messages anti-war groups and
other people people.

she didnt get into the details and say which
government officials told her this or who's
email they are monitoring.

Eleanor Eisenberg runs the Phoenix ACLU
and who she spoke at a talk civil liberties
at the ASU College of Law last night on
Friday, April 11, 2003.

its been widely suspected that people
in the government have joined any listserver
that is even slightly anti-government and
monitor the messages.  if i were you
i would assume that any message that is
posted to a list server is assumed to
be read by people in the goverment.

on closed listservers where only selected
people are allowed to join the listserver
i would also assume the government is
also monitoring those.

the FBI has probably asked the company that
runs yahoogroups.com to let it monitor the
messages on closed listservers. something
which i suspect is legal. and if the people
who run yahoogroups.com are statists they
they probably have aggreed to help the FBI
monitor your email.

even if the people at yahoogroups.com told
the FBI to fuck off I suspect that the FBI
is able to monitor these closed listservers 
with carnivore.

and just to be safe i would consider
any email thats sent thru the
internet to be read by the FBI.

if you are going to send email over the
internet which you dont want to be read
by the government I would encrypt it with
PGP which you can get free off the internet.
PGP is also sold as a commercial product and
you can also buy it.

and even if you encryt the stuff with PGP remember
that folks like the NSA specialize in decrypting
secret messages. so if they really want to read
your email they probably can. althought i suspect
it will cost them some money to decrypt your
message.

bottom line. if you want something to stay a
secret keep it off the internet.