Me, Mine, & Mind. The Dropping Zone.

Film ini bercerita tentang pembunuhan senator yg melibatkan direktur NSA (National Security Agency). Kejadian ini diketahui seorang pengamat satwa, yang akhirnya karena dikejar oleh agen NSA, memberikan kepada seorang pengacara (Robert Clayton Dean / Will Smith) tanpa diketahui si pengacara. Direktur NSA menggunakan kekuatan/kekuasaan yg dimiliki NSA, membuat hari2 si pengacara semakin berat. Dan, biasa lah, akhirnya si pengacara ini, bersama mantan agen NSA yg ikut jadi target (Edward 'Brill' Lyle / Gene Hackman), bisa mengalahkan si direktur NSA ini (Thomas Brian Reynolds / Jon Voight).

Brill: You're the threat now. Just like I was.
Robert Clayton Dean: Threat to whom? To them?
Brill: No. To your family, your friends, everybody you know, everybody you meet. That's why I went away and didn't come back. You've got to go away, Robert.
Robert Clayton Dean: No, I don't think so. This is my life, I worked hard for it and I want it back. I grew up without a father, I know what that is. And I will not allow my family to go through that.

Teknologi informasi memungkinkan integrasinya semua informasi / telekomunikasi, diharapkan sangat meningkatkan efisiensi & efektivitas kegiatan manusia. Dari makin mudahnya urusan perbankan, bisnis, & transaksi, sampai pada pendidikan dan lain2. Tetapi seperti yang lain, hal ini adalah netral alias bisa dipakai secara positif maupun negatif, dan film ini menunjukkan pemakaiannya secara negatif dan masif.

Ketika membuka Yahoo Messenger, ada berita:

NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls:
By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

Congress Demands Phone Records Answers:
By LAURIE KELLMAN and DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press Writer
31 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers demanded answers from the Bush administration Thursday about a spy agency secretly collecting records of millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls to build a database of all calls within the country.

Data on Phone Calls Monitored:
Extent of Administration's Domestic Surveillance Decried in Both Parties
By Barton Gellman and Arshad Mohammed
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, May 12, 2006; Page A01
The Bush administration has secretly been collecting the domestic telephone records of millions of U.S. households and businesses, assembling gargantuan databases and attempting to sift through them for clues about terrorist threats, according to sources with knowledge of the program.

Lawyer: Ex-Qwest Exec Ignored NSA Request
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON - Telecommunications giant Qwest refused to provide the government with access to telephone records of its 15 million customers after deciding the request violated privacy law, a lawyer for a former company executive said Friday. For a second day, the former National Security Agency director defended the spy agency's activities.
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In a written statement, the attorney for former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio said the government approached the company in the fall of 2001 seeking access to the phone records of Qwest customers, with neither a warrant nor approval from a special court established to handle surveillance matters.

"Mr. Nacchio concluded that these requests violated the privacy requirements of the Telecommunications Act," attorney Herbert J. Stern said from his Newark, N.J., office.
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Congressman Sam Albert: [On TV] We knew that we had to monitor our enemies. We've also come to realise that we need to monitor the people who are monitoring them...
Carla Dean: Well who's gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?
Robert Clayton Dean: I wouldn't mind doing a little monitoring myself.

ECHELON is a term associated with a global network of computers that automatically search through millions of intercepted messages for pre-programmed keywords or fax, telex and e-mail addresses. Every word of every message in the frequencies and channels selected at a station is automatically searched. The processors in the network are known as the ECHELON Dictionaries. ECHELON connects all these computers and allows the individual stations to function as distributed elements an integrated system. An ECHELON station's Dictionary contains not only its parent agency's chosen keywords, but also lists for each of the other four agencies in the UKUSA system [NSA, GCHQ, DSD, GCSB and CSE]