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Is there a way to turn on an adt security system alarm without monitoring?

I am leasing a business space with an ADT alarm system in it, but it is not activated. I was just wondering if anyone knows how to turn on the alarm part of it without having to be monitored by ADT, there are neighbors here by the business that would call the cops as fast as ADT, I just need the alarms.

What to Look for in an Orlando Home Security Alarm System

Basically, you need an Orlando Home Security Alarm system so that you can monitor what is happening in your home even while you are not around. But Orlando Home Security Alarm systems do not fit a one-size-fits-all purposes type of model. Rather, every system is designed to perform a certain way to provide the best protection for your home.

A centralized Orlando Home Security Alarm system will allow your home system to be connected directly to the security hub nearby. This permits your home to stay under round-the-clock surveillance even when you are not there to check on the system. If the security hub staff suspect that a fire or burglary is in progress, they will call your home then ask for the secret password. Should the password supplied be the wrong one, the security hub staff will ask the right authorities to head for your home right away.

Another type of Orlando Home Security Alarm system is the type that can detect fires. This fire alarm system can react to duct, heat or smoke sensors. If manual pull stations or sprinklers are activated, then the system will also react to that.

One highly efficient Orlando Home Security Alarm system relies on Internet access between your home and the system’s security hub. This is believed to be the most efficient way for you to look into the status of your home security system.

If you fear that your standard home landline could be disconnected or disabled by burglars and other criminals, then you may need a cellular home security system instead or as a complement to your landline. This cellular home security system relies on a cellular transmitter to deliver emergency signals to the security hub, even when your landline has been cut.

Orlando Home Security Alarm systems are no longer just a luxury that the rich and famous attach to their homes to protect lives and property. In these times when so many bad things could happen to your family, you really need an Orlando Home Security Alarm system for your home.

With Orlando Home Security Alarm systems on the job, you know you’ll get alerted when your child fails to come home at the right time, someone broke into your home while you were away, a senior citizen in your home suffered an accident and cannot access a telephone, a vandal hurled a stone through your front window while you were asleep, and any other situations that may crop up that require your immediate attention.

By using Orlando Home Security Alarm systems, it is no longer necessary to ask special favors of your neighbors to watch over your property. It is easier to respond quickly to emergencies. You can warn any potential criminals that your house is being watched with various warning signs in your property. And if burglars seem very determined to invade your home anyway, the police and other authorities can respond immediately to arrest the suspects. Now that is something no neighbor of yours can guarantee – unless he happens to be an ex-Navy Seal.

For more details on Orlando Home Security Systems, Wireless Security Camera Systems etc. and methods for keeping your family safe and secure visit http://www.Orlando-Home-security.com

Vacation Rental Home Security Systems

Vacation home security is now more important than ever. With rising unemployment, vandalism due to high scrap prices for copper, metals and aluminum, and longer times between visits due to high gas prices or airline fees.

While foreclosure rates remain high, even for vacation homes or second homes, criminals will be seeking crimes of opportunity.

Some of us turn to time-share properties as a more affordable alternative. Each of these two forms of vacation home ownership present unique home security issues.

If you own your own vacation home and live there either seasonally or on a weekend basis, you’re leaving your second home unoccupied for significant periods of time. You’re also establishing a pattern of occupancy that any savvy intruder can soon learn and use to his advantage. If you own a time-share property, you own a percentage of a vacation home. You’re sharing it with complete strangers who may or may not adhere to the same standards of security that you do. And, of course, you trust your time-share company to properly maintain and secure the property during those periods when nobody is staying there.

You may believe that merely applying the same safety practices you follow in your primary residence should be enough to protect your vacation home. But in fact, you need to go above and beyond the rituals of safety you’d observe in a home you live in on a more frequent basis. Homes that look unoccupied are easy targets. You’ve seen those homes with newspapers piled up outside or that appears pitch black at night when the rest of the neighborhood is lit. Consider the following guidelines for protecting your vacation home year-round:

Consider a GE Home Security System from your local Fortune Hi Tech Marketing representative. With FHTM and GE Home Security, it is now easier than ever to protect what means most to you. With customizable systems to meet your specific needs, keep your family, possessions and investments safe. GE is continually advancing new technologies that help homeowners monitor their properties, make schools safer, improve airline security, and more. Plus GE can integrate new security technologies with existing equipment and IT systems. Whether you need an entire system, or individual products, GE has the right technology to keep you safe.

Introduce yourself to your neighbors – particularly those who reside in your neighborhood year-round. Tell them what your schedule is, and ask them to keep an eye on things while you’re away. That doesn’t mean handing them a key, although you may wish to do so if you know and trust your neighbors well enough. And watching over your home doesn’t have to be a job to which you burden your neighbors; simply ask them to remain alert to your home’s appearance. Leave with your neighbors all of your contact numbers at your primary residence, so that they may contact you immediately in the event they spot suspicious activity. Give them verbal approval to contact the local police department in your absence, particularly if they spot suspicious activity and can’t reach you by phone.

Consider the personal items you’re leaving in your vacation home when it’s unoccupied. Anything expensive – including cars, computers, televisions, DVD players and stereo equipment – should be stored under lock and key while you’re away. Take photographs of all of your possessions in your second home, and store them in a safe at your primary residence for insurance purposes. Engrave your name on the back of your expensive electronic equipment.

If you own a timeshare property, find out from the management company exactly what kinds of security measures they have in place. This includes the policies to which maintenance staff are required to adhere. Find out if the management company replaces the locks on doors in the event that tenants lose a key.

For most homeowners, the acquisition of a vacation home is the culmination of years of hard work. That’s why you owe it to yourself and your family to obtain for your vacation home the most stringent standards of safety within your means.

With the GE Home Security lifetime replacement of parts warranty and state of the art UL listed technology, you can rest easy. The highest quality products, competitive pricing and up to 20% off of homeowner and vacation home insurance makes GE Home Security the leader in the industry. One button arming, pager features, door chimes and a 24 hour emergency button make around the clock peace of mind a reality. Let FHTM and GE Home Security give you the power to protect your family and your home.

Here are just a few of the reasons to trust your security with a GE Wireless Home Security System:

One Button Arming: You arm your wireless home security system by pushing a single button.

The Peacekeeper® wireless home security system comes with entry/exit delays at the doors you select, and you can also put these same doors and windows on instant alert with the push of a single button.

Pager Feature: The wireless home security system has a pager feature. Should your child not return from school at the proper time and turn off the system, the system can be programmed to page you.

24-hour Emergency Button: You have access to an emergency panic button that allows you to summon help 24 hours a day.

Battery Back-up: In the event of a power failure, your Command Station will automatically convert from AC to DC.

Door Chime: The wireless home security system will, at your request, act as a door chime. Should your child try to slip out a door unattended, the system will notify you?

Your security and the security of your guests is the most important concern, if you are considering a home or vacation home monitoring system, please contact your local Fortune Hi Tech Marketing Representative, a GE authorized dealer or visit this link to find a representative near you http://fhtmus.com/monaview.

Your Travel Buddy uses and recommends GE Home Security by Fortune HI Tech Marketing. Your Travel Buddy (http://www.ytbvacationrentals.com) is a free vacation rental listing services and publishes vacation rental marketing and cost savings articles for the vacation home or vacation rental owner.

Brent Vanderstelt is owner of Hess Lake Vacation Rentals in Newaygo Michigan, visit http://www.hesslakerentals.com. Brent has also started a free vacation rental listing service, http://www.ytbvacationrentals.com and also has a popular vacation blog at http://myytbtravel.blogspot.com

TOP 12 SEO TIPS

By Steven Havill, Owner, IC Online Services and SEOMe.com

The following are what I’d have to consider to be the most important issues when it comes to building a web presence. If not understood, they become the primary reasons why people are unsuccessful at creating a profitable online business. Many times they have never been made aware of, or don’t understand the basic concepts of how search engines work and their importance to a website. Failing to follow just a few basic principles of content building, navigational structure, and page architecture can drive a website business under. This list is by no means complete when it comes to SEO and Search Engine Marketing but it is a very good start.

1) Have Patience and Don’t Give Up: The web isn’t static, it’s constantly changing and your ability to change with it to meet new goals and adjusting to those changes will be an important part of your success. Results might not be seen for days, weeks, or months and you’ll need to have the patience to deal with these delays. Rarely is there instant gratification when it comes to search marketing and SEO. Frustration isn’t in short supply either and there will be plenty of disappointment in the process of building up an online business. Developing the knowledge you’ll need to make proper marketing decisions will replace these bad experiences with positive ones. Have patience, don’t give up and stick with your business plan.

2) Learn Your Market: Marketing is a competition between you and the other guys that are also trying to court the same customer base. Every client you gain is one less that your competition will have and vise versa. The more “Happy Customers” you can make the more word of mouth will spread and this should snowball into your market share. Do your homework, learn your industry and apply that knowledge to your marketing ventures. You’ll need to gain a firm understanding of your industry, competition, product lines and customer base to target your niche effectively and to be successful at building your market share.

3) Plan: Building a successful business requires planning first and foremost. In many cases the planning phase of a project may take longer than the building of the project itself. If you sincerely intend to be a success, creating a detailed business plan is unavoidable. By dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s you’ll have a better chance at avoiding nasty little surprises that can suck the life out of your business (and bank accounts).

4) Discover and Imitate: Your Top Competitors Knowing your competitions business practices is a fundamental rule to a good business plan. I’m sure you’ve heard terms like “Corporate Spying” or “Corporate Espionage”, companies historically use extreme tactics to spy on their competitors. They will actually plant spies inside of a rival company posing as employees or advisors. These tactics were for the single purpose of learning the other companies marketing, R&D, and industrial secrets. Clothes designers are well known for stealing each others secrets and using them for their own product lines. If you understand how your competition goes about doing their business, you could have a decided edge on them. There isn’t a time in history when spying on another company has been easier than it is these days. Every time a new website goes online it’s like handing out the keys to the office. There’s simply no excuse for you to not know who the top 5-10 players in your industry or niche are, I’ll bet you a dollar they do.

5) Research and Apply: Discovering keywords and keyword phrases, PPC/PPI advertising costs, competitors advertising practices, competitors use of keywords, competitors content layout, search results positions for targeted phrases, and a host of other statistics is an absolute necessity. If you are to compete for web position then you’ll need to understand how you are going to drive traffic to your site, how much it will cost, how your competition succeeds or fails at it, which terms are searched and which terms aren’t, where the hotspots are on your pages, how to optimize each page to correctly take advantage of changing content, which terms are possible to rank with as well as those terms you’ll never be able to rank well with. Research is an endless process that will help you to succeed in the long run.

6) Choosing the Right Domain Name: Are you already running an established business? A domain named after an existing business is probably the way to go. You can also consider a name that might include a part of a slogan or catch phrase if it’s available and makes sense. Graphical location has become the latest “fad” in domain naming and with good reason. The internet was first a national and then global phenomenon, however with time you’d have to expect that as the web grows it will become more GEO Targeted by nature. This is the natural progression of such a beast.

EXP: Lets say our ficticious jewlery store is located in San Francisco, a good geographical domain might be “SFJewelers.com” or Sanfranciscojewelry.com” which plays on both location and industry directly. Most jewelers won’t be competing on an international level but they can certainly grab the bulk of organic searches for any geo-location.

The parts of a domain name that should be considered are;

Keywords – When and if possible try to use a domain name that includes a primary search term used in a grammatically correct fashion. Don’t choose a domain name simply because it includes a keyword anywhere in the name.

EXP: jewelrydeals.com is much better than dealsjewelry.com simply because a natural search would be for jewelry deals rather than the other way around. Length – The shorter the better, if it’s easy to type it’s easy to get to.

Syllables – You should keep the syllables to 4 or less, anything more and your running a risk of losing memorability

Dashes – This has to be one of the biggest mistakes from both sides of the SEO aisle. A dash does NOT HURT a domain name. Google strips the dash so any dash delimited domain could be a bargain. If you can get a two keyword domain separated by a single dash like jewelry-store.com then you should jump on it. This domain would jump right to the top of the results on a search for “jewelry store”. There are still very good domain names available using a single dash, but not for long. People have gotten wise to this fact and they are starting to gobble up all of the strong 2 keyword phrases right now.

Memorability – How easy is your domain to remember the first time someone reads it? Unless you have the cash to buy a short single dictionary term then your domain will need to be creative and memorable.

Single keyword domains are very expensive because of the built in advantage they have for search. FUND.com recently sold for $8m, Vodka.com sold for $4m, Bank of America purchased LOAN.com nearly 10 years ago for over $1m.

Market Demographics - Does the domain name target a huge, large, medium or small market? Small markets are fine if you can grab the lions share of that market. Huge markets carry the risk of dilusion which might make it an uphill battle for you. Would you open a hardware store next to a Home Depot? Weigh the risks with the benefits of the market you’ll be targeting.

Note: Do try to get a .com extension but don’t let that be a requirement. Some experts conclude that extentions outside the .com, .org and .net are spammy or unusable. A single keyword .net, .biz, or .info extension will have much better results than a poor .com would. Some wannabe SEO pseudo guru is right now shaking his head and saying no way. Just for you, I present Arron Wall of SEOBook fame as my primary example. Please take a look at this. Anyone in the industry knows of Arron Wall (or should) and his little PR5 .info WITH A DASH is proof that extensions are only a barrier of the mind, not the internet. So suck it up and find a 2nd tier extension if it means the difference between a poor domain name and a killer keyword rich name. (I hope Arron appreciates this free tout, as if he needs one!)

Choosing a domain name that has no keyword value but that is short and easy to remember could be a brandable name. Building a brandable domain name is always an option, but it will require additional marketing and probably a larger budget to do it right. Be prepared to pay for additional advertising costs when branding a site.

7) Content Management: Once you have all of the above figured out you’ll need a way to easily manage and publish your information. A good Content Management System or CMS should be a priority on your list of to do’s, but where to start? Keep in mind that you’ll most likely be married to whichever CMS you decide to use and the last thing you’ll want is to find out is that the software won’t do exactly what you need it to do, especially after spending days or weeks setting it up. OPEN SOURCE CMS – If you are on a tight budget then I would suggest Joomla or Mambo as a starting point. The support is second to none with a history of security updates, active user forums and a top CMS status. There are literally thousands of 3rd party extensions and plugins that give Joomla unlimited potential and expandability. WordPress is another very popular blog style CMS that also has a huge following and offers many 3rd party templates, plugins, widgets and active support forums making it a good choice. Commercial or Custom CMS – Buying a commercial CMS offers a number of advantages which include commercial support and service level agreements. A commercial CMS may already exist for your needs and will likely be faster to implement than an open source CMS. Documentation and training are usually much stronger than for an open source product. The drawback will most certainly be the expense of the software itself. You pay for what you get and sometimes you’ll pay quite a bit just to find that it may not be exactly what you need. Never purchase any software without a test drive or access to a demo site including back end (admin) access. You must do your homework and investigate the company as well as their platform. What do other customers think of their product and are there good reviews of the company and the software? Make sure that they offer a level of support that meets your needs and are made aware of any added charges or annual fee’s for continued support. The CMS you decide on should be able to implement the MOD_REWRITE function to create search engine friendly paths. Whatever CMS you choose must be able to apply the following steps to be of any use to you in your marketing and optimization plans:

8) Titles, Descriptions and Keywords: You’ll need the ability to edit and modify any pages Title, Description and the Keywords separately. These three items of a website are either “abused” or “not used” by designers and webmasters. It is so simple to create a good title yet better than 50% of the websites out there hack this tag by throwing in “HOME”, “INDEX” or “MY PAGE”, or worse yet they’ll place the URL in the title as if people don’t already know where they are once they get there. Each page has its own unique content and the title, description and keyword tags should all be designed with that particular pages content in mind. Having the same tags on all pages of a site is like a candy company putting the same wrapper on all of it’s different candy bars. Would you buy a Snickers bar if you didnt know there was actually a Snickers bar inside? Titles and descriptions from the human perspective. You need to look at your Title and Description as a single ad unit which is divided into two parts. You’ll want to create a title that is compelling and include a keyword or two inside it. The closer to beginning of the title that you can place your keyowrd the better but dont just stuff 4 keywords in there and call it a title. It needs to make sense to the reader otherwise they wont be inspired to click on your listing. The title should grab attention and then lead the reader into a description that makes them want to click on the listing. Clean and Simple advertising in its purest form.

9) Content Layout: Take a look at your top competitors websites and figure out what they’re doing to propel their sites to the top of the SERPs. What are the search engines looking at within the content of those pages. Follow their lead by implementing similar (NOT EXACT) methods to compete on their level. Use header and alt tags properly to reinforce content. The search engines love seeing keyword content spread over different areas of your pages but you’ll need to understand what constitutes keyword spamming and why, and how to use keyword percentages to build perfect pages. Navigation of a site should be intuitive and easy to follow.

10) Plan Your Paths: Care should be taken to design your paths to be strong to content just as content is made strong to keywords and phrases. By naming categories, directories and files to be keyword rich you reinforce the search engines perception of content strength. Using our ficticous Jewelry site that sells silver chains as our example lets see how path naming can be done in a way to optimize content for “silver rope chains”; Good> ://jewelrysite.com/silver-chains/rope-chains.html Bad> ://jewelrysite.com/silver-deals/rope.html While it is true that tons of people may search for “rope”, I doubt we’ll be seeing the kind of traffic that “rope chains” should receive. It’s a very easy task to design and create SEO friendly paths that will be optimization for search.

11) Alt Tags: Allows authors to specify alternate text to serve as content when the element cannot be rendered normally. Specifying alternate text assists users without graphic display terminals, users whose browsers don’t support forms, visually impaired users, those who use speech synthesizers, those who have configured their graphical user agents not to display images, etc. By using alternate text to build and reinforce content you can radically improve a websites SERP. Also, by creating pages that text to speech readers and speech synthesizers can understand, you’ll be widening your target market to include the visually impaired. Google is now giving extra weight to websites that build T2S compliant pages.

12) Understand The Costs and Benefits of Different Advertising Channels: Getting the best bang for the buck is the bottom line here. Let’s talk about Google since they provide about 62% of all search referrals. Google’s advertising program (ADWORDS) consists of keyword bidding on the Google search engine, Google Partners network and content placements. Create your free Adwords account and choose Standard edition with the post payment option. Once you’ve created your Adwords account, DO NOT start by choosing every keyword in you

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Home Security Systems to Keep Your Home Safe

We would all like peace of mind knowing that our homes are safe when leaving or on vacation. Unfortunately, the greatest number of ‘home intrusions” occurs when families are on vacation or away for longer periods. By installing a home security system, this dramatically reduces the chance of your home being robbed. Also, a home security system has other features such as options for calling your local fire or police department by just pushing one button. Elderly or small children in the household would benefit from this feature, as a live person would be available in any state of emergency without using the phone.

Home Security Systems may sound like a lot of work, especially when most families are constantly on the go. The key; is to locate the perfect system for you. Many Home Security companies offer choices that better fit your lifestyle and can choose what is most convenient for your household.

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A home security system isn’t just for citizens in high-crime areas. For suburban homes where the whole neighborhood seems to empty during the day, a security system may be a good choice. A home security system equipped with a good camera can do a lot for your house. You can use it to see who is at the door before you open it, you can also keep an eye on driveways to watch vehicles & equipment and most importantly, you can check on any trespassers. A home security system can save you money on your homeowner’s insurance costs.

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Here are the basic choices to choose from…

Simple Security; These options have less bells and whistles. The system may include motion sensors, sound detectors, and photocells. Individual window alarms could be set in place, do-it-yourself wireless systems, and timers that would turn on lights at a programmed time to create an illusion that someone is home.

Other options with the Simple Security would include; Interior alarms that monitor intrusions inside the home including, panic switches, noise detection, motion sensors, photoelectric beams (light beams that trigger when interrupted) and pressure mats (flat switches that trigger by footsteps). In addition to home security systems, adding dead bolts or “heavy-duty strike plates” can further help improve your home security. Outdoor motion detectors are sensor lights that also offer assistance in home security.

The last option would be a Perimeter Alarms, where any perimeter being violated will ring a bell, or siren scaring most burglars away.

When it comes to the security and safety of your property and family, there is never an exact cost to help consider which system, but always know that there is a solution for keeping your home safe from violators. Anything new takes a short time to adjust, and before long, it becomes systematic in your everyday living.

I too have a security system and I never think of it as a burden to punch in my code when I enter my home with my children, or any thought at all for that matter. I guess that is what we call that little peace of mind. My home security gives me the comfort I need just knowing that my family is safer.

Let’s face it, we live in a world moving toward increasing crime. When we think of people out in the world who have suffered fatality, or injury related to burglar, we often think, “This could never happen to me.” The fact is it can happen to you. It just hasn’t happen yet.

It is a fact that no one is excluded from the criminal’s intent to steal, harm, or take a life. Criminals do not think on the same terms as we do, therefore, we must take extra precautions to guard our family and home.

In addition to burglary, fires and carbon monoxide claims a life each day. According to statistics over 1000 person’s die from carbon monoxide poisoning. Another 10,000 persons fall injury to carbon monoxide poisoning and/or fire. Fires claim more lives than carbon monoxide, therefore adding a CO, (Carbon Monoxide Alarm) Smoke alarm, and a home security device to your home is not much to ask for compared to the lives you will save.

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ADT Home Security Monitoring – Mobile Home Security


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which home security company is economical and provides quality service?

Making the Most Out Of Your Security System


ADT encourages its customers to make the most out of their home security system to help protect their home and family. From arming your system when you’re both home and away from home to testing your system regularly, ADT’s Home Security Advisor, Anne-Marie provides simple tips and advice to add an extra layer of protection to the things that matter most.

Fire Alarm Monitoring Can Save Up Lives

Most homes have a smoke detector that lets them know when a fire has broken out. These smoke detectors do just that; they detect smoke. That means that a smoking oven could even set them off. Not only that, but if you have a huge home or office building, there’s no way that a smoke alarm will be sufficient. That’s why many homes and businesses are connecting fire alarms that offer fire alarm monitoring. With fire alarm monitoring, you always have someone keeping an eye on your house or office. If there is a fire, the fire alarm monitoring service will detect it, and the authorities will be called. If you’re not home, you will be called and notified by the fire alarm monitoring employees so that you know what’s going on.

Always Be Informed

Not only will fire alarm monitoring let you know at all times whether or not your home is safe, but it will let you know where the fire is located and the proper authorities will be called. Fire alarm monitoring keeps you up to date on everything that’s going on and that means you’re always on top of things should a fire break out. Having a service like this could save your life or the life of your family.

Saving Lives

It can sometimes be hard to imagine how someone can die in a house or building fire. The place is on fire so you head for the exit, right? You really can’t judge a situation, however, until you’re placed in that situation first hand. What you may not realize is that people who die in fires rarely die from the fire itself. When a fire breaks out, and the building fills up with smoke, you can’t see, and you can’t breathe.

You can quickly become disoriented so that you don’t know which way is out. Pretty soon, you run out of air and you collapse. That’s often how people meet their demise when a fire erupts inside of a house or building. With fire alarm monitoring, you can know where the fire is instantly and that can save your or your family’s life.

You’re Not Home

If you’re not home, say you’re on vacation or something, and a fire breaks out, fire alarm monitoring enables you to become alerted wherever you are by a representative of the company. The authorities will also be called so that fire crews can work to put out your fire immediately before any more damage is done. The fact is that a smoke alarm is vastly inferior to fire alarm monitoring so if you want the very best in home and family protection, go with fire alarm monitoring for your home.

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Is the government trying to give socialized internet access so they can monitor people better?

I was trying to think about why the Democrats kept pusing for government socialized internet access and based off of the other behavior of Obama, Bush, and even Clinton I realized why.

The private companies providing access makes it harder for the government to monitor who searches what when and to more heavily monitor the internet.

One of my customers used to work for the White House under clinton in the data mining department. He said that when people would search the internet they could monitor everything they surf including bank and credit card information. I was shocked by this, but it brought everything together for me.

This can be effective in combating terrorism, but is a massive invasion of privacy if misused.

For those of you that were afraid of Bush listening in on your phone conversations, this should really scare you and is much more invasive to me. What if you write something they do not like? They are watching everything.

The Clinton administration consistently championed the
> right of government employees to stick their noses
> almost anywhere — into people’s email, car, house, or
> personal effects. Clintonites set off one false alarm
> after another to justify extending government’s right
> to intrude. The administration consistently sought to
> exploit technological development in order to maximize
> government’s control over the citizenry.

> A 1998 ACLU report observed that the Clinton
> administration had
>
> engaged in surreptitious surveillance, such as
> wiretapping, on a far greater scale than ever
> before…. The Administration is using scare tactics
> to acquire vast new powers to spy on all Americans.
> On April 16, 1993, the Clinton administration revealed
> that the National Security Agency had secretly
> developed a new microchip known as the Clipper Chip. A
> White House press release announced “a new initiative
> that will bring the Federal Government together with
> industry in a voluntary program to improve the
> security and privacy of telephone communications while
> meeting the legitimate needs of law enforcement.” This
> was practically the last time that the word
> “voluntary” was used.
>
> The Clipper Chip presumed that it should be a crime
> for anyone to use technology that frustrates curious
> government agents. The ACLU noted,
>
> The Clipper Chip proposal would have required every
> encryption user (that is, every individual or business
> using a digital telephone system, fax machine, the
> Internet, etc.) to hand over their decryption keys to
> the government, giving it access to both stored data
> and real-time communications. This is the equivalent
> of the government requiring all home-builders to embed
> microphones in the walls of homes and apartments.
> Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy
> Information Center, observed, “You don’t want to buy a
> set of car keys from a guy who specializes in stealing
> cars.” When the federal National Institute for
> Standards and Technology formally published the
> proposal for the new surveillance chip, fewer than one
> percent of the comments supported the plan.
>
> The administration eventually abandoned its Clipper
> campaign but stepped up its attacks on purveyors of
> encryption software.
For those of you that want to know what I mean by Government run aka
“socialized internet”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97692002

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/obama_says_internet_key_to_eco.php

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/72354