A tuba. On fire.

Dayv, this article made me think of you:

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/15/tubatron_howto_make_.html

Good heavens!

Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling.

This is hot on the heels of Qwest's former CEO revealing that he turned down government requests for data access because of "a disinclination on the part of the authorities to use any legal process," while elsewhere, others wonder about the potential civil liability of the telephone companies if they violated the Stored Communications Act by disclosing call records to the NSA without a court order .

A leading intelligence historian talks about how he’s found that the NSA has learned to maneuver around Congress and the Department of Justice to get what it wants.

While I guess it doesn’t surprise me that Cheney and Rumsfeld Shielded Telecoms from Domestic Spying Charges in the 1970s , what does all this wiretapping mean for future generations? The father of cyberspace himself, William Gibson, says that “I keep seeing that in the lower discourse of the Internet, people saying, "Oh, they're doing it anyway." In some way our culture believes that, and it's a real problem, because evidently they haven't been doing it anyway, and now that they've started, we really need to pay attention and muster some kind of viable political response. “

And finally, via Cursor, The New York Times reports on Vice President Cheney's early advocacy of an expanded domestic surveillance program, whose existence was denied by John Negroponte as recently as a week ago, and a White House aide 'defends eavesdropping,' insisting that it was legal and "narrowly designed."

Well, I am shocked, just SHOCKED that the government keeping a large database without proper oversight is using it for purposes other than tracking terrorists.