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From: MIT Free Group <free@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:07 PM
Subject: The NSA is coming to MIT!
To: MIT Free Group <free@mit.edu>


Do you think the NSA is doing a good job of spying on Americans? Come
make your voice heard! Come to 66-144 tomorrow (Thursday, 9/19) 5:30
and participate by asking pointed questions like:

* Do you think mass surveillance is constitutional?

* Do you think it's within the NSA's jurisdiction to spy on Americans?

* If I join the NSA, will I be spying on Americans?

* What about the massive phone records database of every American
  phone call?  This has been widely reported on and admitted to by the
  government.

* If I join the NSA, will I have the ability to use the computer
  program that can search databases for Americans' emails or other
  communications?

* If I join the NSA, will I be able to acquire the personal
  information of potential love interests, as others in the NSA have
  done?

* What justification does the NSA give for the use of its databases in
  crimes not related to national security, like drug possession? What
  other crimes will the NSA use its databases for? How far will this
  go?

* Why does the NSA share all of its acquired information with Israel?

* Why does the NSA allow the German government to use XKeyScore?

* Do you feel like the NSA should be spying on millions of ordinary
  people around the world alongside spying on terrorists?

* How does it not violate the Fourth Amendment to search Americans'
  emails without a warrant?

* What's the most effective way to report illegal activity from within
  the NSA?  What could Edward Snowden have done better?

* How are we supposed to have an honest debate about the ethics and
  constitutionality of NSA surveillance if we're not allowed to know
  what goes on?

* Both Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court have
  claimed not to be able to provide proper oversight over your
  actions. What sort of oversight is there, then?

* Where do you see the NSA in 10 years? Have you read 1984?

* Why does the NSA weaken encryption standards? Doesn't that go
  against NSA's mission?

* As an engineer, if I design a cryptosystem will the NSA change the
  standard to render it useless?

* I recently received a National Security Letter telling me to speak
  up in the back of my house. Can you hear me better now?

Come dog the snoops,
The MIT Free Group