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Glenn Beck: Cars.gov allows government to takeover your computer
Fox News ^ | August 6, 2009 | Glenn Beck

Posted on 08/07/2009 6:07:47 AM PDT by demkicker

DO NOT GO TO THE CARS.GOV WEBSITE! You will not believe what will happen to your computer if you do. This will explain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWs12ccbOiE


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: antibeck; disruptors; liars; privacybreach; whiners
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1 posted on 08/07/2009 6:07:47 AM PDT by demkicker
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To: demkicker

ohfercyinoutloud.


2 posted on 08/07/2009 6:10:08 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: demkicker

Beck was talking about this the other day.


3 posted on 08/07/2009 6:10:20 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: demkicker

The www.cars.gov website does not take over your computer. This is an alternate website that the dealers use, not the general public.


4 posted on 08/07/2009 6:11:16 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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To: demkicker

?? What?? where?? Who?? how??


5 posted on 08/07/2009 6:12:36 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: demkicker

Is Beck still trashing the Birthers? Hard to believe anyone who calls Birthers “idiots”....


6 posted on 08/07/2009 6:14:02 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Know the difference between "conservative" and "republican")
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To: sam_paine

oh noes!


7 posted on 08/07/2009 6:15:24 AM PDT by steveo (Two Thousand Ten - Never Again)
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To: demkicker

This is seriesly hugh.


8 posted on 08/07/2009 6:16:54 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (Time to CLEAN HOUSE (AND Senate!!!) Kick their butts to the curb!!)
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To: IYAS9YAS

The name of the site is generic, and the public may indeed visit it in search of clunkers program info.

Most everybody will click to ‘agree to terms’....

at which point your computer and all of its information belongs to the government.

What part of this process do you not understand? Whether it was intentioned to be for car dealers or not does not change the duplicity and challenge to privacy and ownership.


9 posted on 08/07/2009 6:17:07 AM PDT by mountaineer1997
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To: demkicker

Jeeezzzuuuussss...this is a standard warning when linking up to a government computer/network. Beck is breaking out the panic button over nothing.


10 posted on 08/07/2009 6:17:09 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: OCCASparky

actually the cars.gov site has language which makes the dealer computers (or anyone else) that access it “a federal computer on the federal system” with no fourth amendment rights.

THE ISSUE is how many other “.gov” sites have similar “you waive fourth amendement warrant rigths” user language.


11 posted on 08/07/2009 6:27:46 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: mountaineer1997
What part of cars.gov don't you understand?

Going to www.cars.gov does not do this. Spreading misinformation does no good. The government has fully admitted to the language of the site the dealers use. See this: Freerepublic

As a matter of fact, I've been there several times, just to read up on the program, I've never been given the opportunity to log in, nor have I even come across this disclaimer. Even on the dealer side of cars.gov. There doesn't even appear to be a place to log in.

12 posted on 08/07/2009 6:31:10 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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To: HollyB

Was he crying about it?


13 posted on 08/07/2009 6:36:41 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: stuartcr

Think he went back on the sauce.


14 posted on 08/07/2009 6:53:35 AM PDT by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: stuartcr

No, he was not crying about it.

He was discussing the process when the auto dealers click on it.


15 posted on 08/07/2009 7:02:25 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: IYAS9YAS
As a matter of fact, I've been there several times, just to read up on the program, I've never been given the opportunity to log in, nor have I even come across this disclaimer. Even on the dealer side of cars.gov. There doesn't even appear to be a place to log in.

But see, since these folks see or hear hysterical "Oh noes!  Don't go to the site!!~!" they, well, don't go to the site, and consequently don't do what you reasonably did.  Instead they swallow it hook line and sinker and pass on what they just fell for. 

Its really not much different than the hoax email warnings breathlessly imploring you to "Send this to everyone you know!!!" that people new to the net irritate all their savvier friends with. 

16 posted on 08/07/2009 7:06:41 AM PDT by MichiganMan (Oprah: Commercial Beef Agriculture=Bad, Commercial Chicken Agriculture=Good...Wait, WTF???)
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To: HollyB

OK, thanks


17 posted on 08/07/2009 7:18:21 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: RU88

Is that what it is? The few times I’ve listened to him, he just sounds all whiney and ready to cry.


18 posted on 08/07/2009 7:19:29 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
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