fake stuff on the internet is SO Dangerous...
perhaps the same right that brack obozo has not to be offended?
Posted on 10/28/2014 7:30:39 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The FBI in Seattle fabricated a news story on a fake Seattle Times web page to track down a suspect in a series of school bomb threats in 2007, according to the newspaper and documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union, revealed the FBI's ruse on Twitter, calling it "outrageous."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
well if it WORKED...and helped stop some inane jihadist fiasco...so be it
exactly what I was getting ready to say
Me, too. Sounds like one of the few times in recent years when the FBI actually did the right thing.
Ditto......
So you're one of those who think you have nothing to hid, so let Uncle Sam do as he leases while he pursues the Bad Guys?
Not me. Not ever.
We should try and HANG all those who endeavor so, and their supporters.
I’m with you.
I'm going out on a limb here with a wild guess that the Seattle Times has a reputation as a liebral propaganda bullhorn. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
And the Times and AP are mad. They feel they’re the only ones allowed to lie to the public.
The Right of a Free Press.
Get it?
see post below...aka above ...Post 10....for the dangers of fake stuff on the internet....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3220698/posts?page=10#10
like Dan Rathers free press right?
The Seattle Times reports that the EFF documents show that the FBI created the bogus news story and web page in order to plant spyware in the computer of the bomb-threat suspect. The story included an Associated Press byline and an email link that included information about Seattle Times subscriptions and advertising.
When the suspect, who apparently received the link on his MySpace account, clicked on the URL, the spyware alerted FBI agents to the suspect’s location, the newspaper reported. The suspect, a 15-year-old, was later arrested and convicted, court records show.
a LINK to a FAKE PAGE.... cearly not been published on the papers website.....thus no one but the PUKE they emailed the link to even SAW the so called Seattle Times “page”.
it was not available THROUGH the website..nor any other links.
The Seattle Times reports that the EFF documents show that the FBI created the bogus news story and web page in order to plant spyware in the computer of the bomb-threat suspect. The story included an Associated Press byline and an email link that included information about Seattle Times subscriptions and advertising.
When the suspect, who apparently received the link on his MySpace account, clicked on the URL, the spyware alerted FBI agents to the suspect’s location, the newspaper reported. The suspect, a 15-year-old, was later arrested and convicted, court records show.
a LINK to a FAKE PAGE.... cearly not been published on the papers website.....thus no one but the PUKE they emailed the link to even SAW the so called Seattle Times “page”.
it was not available THROUGH the website..nor any other links.
Quit bringing facts into this. There are those that are angry about this here on FR. You cannot deny them their bluster.
Ive made several FAKE...web pages...lampooning,,,various publications websites.
It was not my intent to catch any criminals...just to have fun.
the URLS....were a dead giveway...that the pages dd not belong to thos publications thusly lampooned.
I suspect that this will not matter to those calling for the FBI’s Beheading
LOL.....
Everything in “the news” is a planted propaganda piece written by the 5th column anyways. Meh.
Just remember who labels who “terrorist”. It ain’t you and I.
And, if the government can impersonate a 1st Amendment protected publication I contend that's an infringement of the 1st Amendment.
And I'm pretty sure higher courts will agree.
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