[conspire] Halt efforts that compel Apple and other device makers to create a "backdoor" for the Government to access citizens data | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

[Carl Myers]

So annoying.... there needs to be a service that will mail hand-written letters
for you in exchange for $.  Maybe we could use Amazon Mechanical Turk, or
taskrabbit, or something for that purpose? (just spit-ballin')


On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 06:25:10PM +0000, Paul Zander wrote:
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:25:10 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Paul Zander <paulz at ieee.org>
> To: Conspire List <conspire at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Halt efforts that compel Apple and other device
> 	makers to	create a "backdoor" for the Government to access
> 	citizens data | We the	People: Your Voice in Our Government
> 
>    Regarding contacting Congress[wo]men and Senators:
>    It is a good thing to let them know how your feel about issues.  However
>    they get so much input, that their staff has to tabulate it.  They weight
>    the inputs based on how much effort you put into sending the message.
>    Least effective:
>      Sign a petition.
>    Better:
>      Go to house.gov or senate.gov.  Find the person for your home location
>    and follow the links to send them an email.  Hint: write the text with
>    your favorite word processor.  Then you can paste it to your congressmen
>    and senators.
>    Best:
>      Send a paper copy via postal mail.   You can find the address at the
>    above web sites
>    Best of all:
>      Hand write the letter that you mail.
> 
>      ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>    From: Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>    To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
>    Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 7:54 AM
>    Subject: Re: [conspire] Halt efforts that compel Apple and other device
>    makers to create a "backdoor" for the Government to access citizens data |
>    We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
>    Hmmmm,
> 
>    I've trice thrice now, to sign that petition.
> 
>    Each time it requires use of an email verification link to finish the
>    process,
>    and each time that link received in the email gives a 404 error.
>    I've successfully signed petitions on that site before without problems.
> 
>    Maybe they just don't want too many signatures on that one.  8-O
> 
>    > Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 06:38:50 -0800
>    > From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
>    > To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
>    > Subject: [conspire] (forw) [luv-talk] Halt efforts that compel Apple
>    >     and other device makers to create a "backdoor" for the Government to
>    >     access citizens data | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
>    > Message-ID: <20160222143850.GS24965 at linuxmafia.com>
>    > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>    >
>    > FYI.
>    >
>    > ----- Forwarded message from Andrew McGlashan 
>    > <andrew.mcglashan at affinityvision.com.au> -----
>    >
>    > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:45:27 +1100
>    > From: Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan at affinityvision.com.au>
>    > To: luv-talk at luv.asn.au
>    > Subject: [luv-talk] Halt efforts that compel Apple and other device
>    makers
>    >     to create a "backdoor" for the Government to access citizens data |
>    We
>    >     the
>    >     People: Your Voice in Our Government
>    >
>    > For anyone in America or your friends.... this petition needs to get
>    > plenty more sigs:
>    >
>    > https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/apple-privacy-petition
>    >
>    > Cheers
>    > A.
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