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Employer Tipped Off Police To Pressure Cooker And Backpack Searches, Not Google
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| 1 Aug 2013
| Alexia Tsotsis
Posted on 08/01/2013 5:45:23 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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WTF was she googling that for at work !?!?!?!?
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posted on
08/01/2013 5:45:23 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
Stupid woman.
With the American Stasi in full gear, paranoia is not paranoia; it’s just good survival thinking.
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posted on
08/01/2013 5:47:44 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: 11th_VA
Heck, I googled that from work when I heard about the Boston Bombers - as a way to retort liberals who thought it was another McVeigh.
And gee, I bought a backpack from Amazon on-line in June.
The point is, that kind of two-point data-driven investigation is stupid and a waste of time.
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posted on
08/01/2013 5:50:21 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: 11th_VA
“While a PRISM-backed system, or Google itself, tracking user activity wasnt the cause for this specific incident, the fact is that Google does comply with law enforcement to hand over user data.”
BS. I thought that was the whole Snowden fiasco? That Yahoo, Skype, Microsoft, CrApple, facebook etc left a backdoor open for the govt to snoop on citizens?
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posted on
08/01/2013 5:53:19 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
To: ChildOfThe60s
Oh, and it was a really scary, black, quasi-military looking assault backpack:
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posted on
08/01/2013 5:53:21 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: dirtboy
Dear Mom,
My job is a real pressure cooker. Yesterday afternoon, my boss blew up at me. She had run out of fertilizer for her office plants and blamed me.
That woman is a real terror. My morale is being ground down to zero. It felt like my head was going to explode.
On top of that, somebody spilled a box of paper clips in the break room and it felt like I was walking on ball bearings.
After work, I had a couple beers with my buddy Mohammed down at the el-Tikrit Bar and Grill. We both had pulled-pork submarine sandwiches. They're called the Obama Special and they are the bomb. One is plenty but two is suicide, which is why I had to loosen the buttons on my vest.
Then we played a game of darts. They have those new darts shaped like little guided missiles but I couldn't hit the target. My buddy Sam is way better at launching the missiles than anybody. He throws them so fast that they sound like a low-flying plane...
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posted on
08/01/2013 5:55:03 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
(It's all about culture, not color)
To: dirtboy
Just like the one Adolph G Zimmerman used to gun down that innocent lil child!
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posted on
08/01/2013 5:57:06 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
To: dirtboy
OMG an assault BackPack!!!!
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posted on
08/01/2013 5:59:26 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: 11th_VA
And the employer discovered the search within one day ? Not likely.
To: 11th_VA
Did you read the article you posted? It was the husband who searched at work.
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:00:46 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
To: 11th_VA
WTF was she googling that for at work !?!?!?!? She didn't want it tracked to her home 'puter!
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:01:03 PM PDT
by
null and void
(You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
To: upchuck
Ooooooo
kay. HE didn't want it tracked to HIS home 'puter!
Das ist besser, ja?
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:02:37 PM PDT
by
null and void
(You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
To: 11th_VA
Well done! Let us know when they come to your door.
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:09:19 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: upchuck
Actually I was confused by the article:
"It turns out either Catalano or her husband were conducting these searches from a work computer."
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:10:34 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
(It's all about culture, not color)
To: dirtboy
Here's what I posted earlier on another thread:
"Let's assume, for the moment, that this story is factual and complete. If so, it illustrates one of the (many) problems with comprehensive electronic surveillance, combined with data mining -- False Positives.
If the DHS, FBI, etc. had prior reasonable cause to suspect this couple, and that caused them to check their Google searches -- then, those results might be considered evidence.
However, when you surveil everyone routinely, a large number of apparent hits will occur randomly. (Think of Google search topics as cards -- deal enough of them, and you will have a number of random "hits" of "hot" topics.) Anyone, who has studied (even somewhat) advanced statistics, will understand this problem quite well. Rather than using the data mining to confirm suspects -- they're using data mining to produce suspects. Given that there are probably a lot more people, who happen to search on two or more trigger words, than there are actual active terrorists, at any given time -- you are going to generate more false positives than real hits. A lot of innocent citizens are going to be treated like terrorists; because of this bass-ackwards way of collecting evidence."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3049950/posts
It seems that the story was not complete, nor completely accurate. However, the rest of what I said still applies.
In short: I agree with you.
To: GraceG
To: 11th_VA
WTF was she googling that for at work !?!?!?!? I thought that's what smartphones were for.
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:16:53 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Well said. I work with marketing databases. I have said for some time that if we really want to find terrorists in this country, turn the data over to marketers. They would have them segmented into the exact variety of terrorist in three weeks.
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:21:31 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: 11th_VA
The employer might have called the cops but he didn’t make them take it seriously.
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:22:14 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
To: 11th_VA
She said she googled the pressure cookers, while her husband googled the backpacks. So, I’m guessing it was a company laptop that she also used at home.
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