Echelon is an automated word-screening and data mining programme that monitors all Internet communications, e-mail and cellphone communications worldwide for certain keywords.

Echelon can, however, be rendered useless if large numbers of people were to include the Echelon key word list in every email that they send. If a high precentage of e-mails and cell phone calls contain the keywords, their value for data screening purposes is nullified. It is like sprinkling tons of iron particles in a field where someone is looking for a single nail with a metal detector.

Let's make the wage-slaves who operate the Echelon system earn every last penny of the salaries their political masters pay them to snoop on us and invade our privacy. Cut and paste the Echelon keywords into the bottom of every e-mail that you send.

Just as a field can be 'salted' so too can the Internet. To protect our privacy from these and other similarly encroaching surveillance techniques, we need to make this kind of 'Big Brother' intrusion a complete waste of time and resources.

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