Evaluating all algum
instruction
identifying questions to ask
1
in the past, if the government wanted to violate the
privacy of ordinary citizens, it had to expend a certain
amount of effort to intercept and steam open and read
paper mail, or listen to and possibly transcribe spoken
telephone conversations. this is analogous to catching
fish with a hook and a line, one fish at a time. fortunately
for freedom and democracy, this kind of labor-intensive
monitoring is not practical on a large scale. today,
electronic mail is gradually replacing conventional paper
mail, and is soon to be the norm for everyone, not the
novelty it is today. unlike paper mail, e-mail messages
are just too easy to intercept and scan for interesting
keywords. this can be done easily, routinely,
automatically, and undetectably on a grand scale. this is
analogous to driftnet fishing - making a quantitative and
qualitative orwellian difference to the health of
which questions improve your ability to understand the
point that email security is important for personal
from
freedom? check all that apply.
what does the word "analogous” mean?
will paper mail stop becoming available?
what are the dangers of converting to electronic
mail?
why is effort required to read paper mail?
what is the result if the government violates
privacy?
democracy.
- the code book,
done