re estimating wiretap costs benefits in article rlglendec t en netcom com rlglende netcom com robert lewis glendenning writes first what the fuck is nasa doing wasting my tax dollars doing policy papers on stuff far outside of their purvew mission i don t think they re paying for it do us a favor resign rather than right this paper for nasa go do useful work for the society useful i find his estimate of the annual value to law enforcement of million quite useful if rough e g wiretaps may be preferentially used on otherwise hard to catch criminals resulting in an underestimate this comes to twenty cents a head over the u s population i would find some rigorous numbers on this quite useful it would make for nice slogans your privacy is worth or whatever it turns out to be lew glendenning rlglende netcom com pgp key by finger or e mail eli ebrandt jarthur claremont edu
