There has been some interesting news on the NSA spying scandal.

Seymour Hersh has claimed they are listening to domestic conversations in the New Yorker.

A security consultant working with a major telecommunications carrier told me that his client set up a top-secret high-speed circuit between its main computer complex and Quantico, Virginia, the site of a government-intelligence computer center. This link provided direct access to the carrier’s network core-the critical area of its system, where all its data are stored. "What the companies are doing is worse than turning over records," the consultant said. "They’re providing total access to all the data."
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Instead, the N.S.A. began, in some cases, to eavesdrop on callers (often using computers to listen for key words) or to investigate them using traditional police methods. A government consultant told me that tens of thousands of Americans had had their calls monitored in one way or the other. "In the old days, you needed probable cause to listen in," the consultant explained. "But you could not listen in to generate probable cause. What they’re doing is a violation of the spirit of the law." One C.I.A. officer told me that the Administration, by not approaching the FISA court early on, had made it much harder to go to the court later.

Further, documents disclosed by Wired magazine appear consistent with these accounts. Apparently the NSA has been hardwired into the phone networks for several years now.

There is a good Give Up solution, if enough people want to contribute. Just remember, begin or end every conversation with a statement including the words "Osama bin Laden" "Dirty Bomb" "Jihad" "Death to America" and that ululating noise. You can make it innocent, say something like, "Osama bin Laden's jihad better not result in a dirty bomb leading to death to America, go George Bush! Ulululululululu!"

That will screw with the system.