Barabbas86 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Polygraphs work--sorta (Score 1) 405

by Barabbas86 on Monday January 01, 2007 @08:10PM (#17426636) Attached to: Scientist Organizes Resistance To Polygraphs

Wait, you need to take a polygraph test to get into an INTELLIGENCE AGENCY and you aren't supposed to know how a polygraph works? If you do actually know how it works, you'll be more nervous about false positives than about any actual lying you might try to get away with. I guess it'll eliminate anxious candidates very efficiently, but doubtful those who already lie convincingly. Polygraphs don't sorta work, intimidation sorta causes predictably abnormal behavior. I'm glad we as a people have moved past superstition.

Big Brother Wants Into VoIP At Any Cost 247

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 28, 2006 @02:36PM from the cracking-the-seal dept.

wallaby fly-half writes "An amendment to the CALEA law would make it easier for the government to monitor calls made over VoIP and even temporarily store some packet traffic. Ars Technica reports that the 'bill will put the technology in place to buffer packet streams, and places the job of filtering those streams under government control. We know from the NSA warrantless wiretapping program that the government is not limiting itself to access to under court orders, and the CALEA bill must be considered in light of the capacity it generates.'"

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