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Employer Tipped Off Police To Pressure Cooker And Backpack Searches, Not Google
TechCrunch.com ^ | 1 Aug 2013 | Alexia Tsotsis

Posted on 08/01/2013 5:45:23 PM PDT by 11th_VA

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To: 11th_VA

That should be enough to start the alarms and get you moved up towards the top of the list.


21 posted on 08/01/2013 6:25:21 PM PDT by B4Ranch (AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- http://vimeo.com/63749370)
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To: Zhang Fei

Yep. Just remember to wrap your smartphone in tin foil, or crawl into the freezer, before you search for sensitive terms. Otherwise Big Brudda will get you!


22 posted on 08/01/2013 6:28:11 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: dirtboy

Actually, that is almost what the NSA program is doing, adopting the tactics of web marketers to find terrorists. The reason it isn’t as effective is not because the NSA can’t duplicate the tactics of the marketers, it’s because they are not allowed to duplicate all those tactics. They can’t, for example, try to finagle ways to put tracking cookies on everyone’s computer, or try to deceive us into installing tracking software on our machines. There are limits on how much data they can grab and keep indiscriminately too.

So, if we allowed them even more unrestricted surveillance, they’d be just as effective as marketers, but they’d also be much more destructive. Marketers just use their power to annoy us, but the government wouldn’t stop at that.


23 posted on 08/01/2013 6:32:31 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: 11th_VA

Once was transferring data files off a computer from a woman who had the left the company

Came across file called DIVORCE

Letter to her lawyer about what a louse her husband is

How many times drunk, how many times slapped her around...

Made great reading before deleted it......


24 posted on 08/01/2013 6:36:22 PM PDT by njslim (St)
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To: Boogieman

I disagree. Marketers could segment the terrorists without the tools you mention, just with the data that our moronic fedgov counterterrorism nitwits say is not enough.


25 posted on 08/01/2013 6:36:46 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Boogieman

Yet you maintain that even thinking obama had anything to do with Hastings’ death is just plain silly.

Interesting.


26 posted on 08/01/2013 6:40:48 PM PDT by null and void (You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
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To: 11th_VA

Uh-huh..sure thing, yep , I believe that.


27 posted on 08/01/2013 6:47:20 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: 11th_VA

What seems to be missing from this article is the word “allegedly”.

It will be interesting to see what the response to this assertion by the Suffolk PD is, from the supposed former employer, from the husband, and from the wife.


28 posted on 08/01/2013 6:50:59 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: null and void
I'm convinced. What this whole business of NSA spying on all Americans is about is to facilitate courtroom evidence, not preventative police action. But that's only the excuse to spy on everyone all of the time.

If preventative police action was actually part of the program wouldn't several if not many of the attacks by muslims on innocent people have been prevented? The underwear bomber, the brothers Boston, and others seem to prove the point.

Listening to Congressmen extol the virtues they seem to find in secret laws with secret courts, approving secret programs while certain political enemies are targeted also in secret doesn't even attempt to pass the smell test.

No, I think the spying is all about building that legal case against whatever political target may be of interest. Whether that explains the Rino republicans or Marco Rubio, or you or me running for some future office being confronted with the most embarrassing revelations in public. It's a tool that shouldn't exist, let alone one we're paying for.

29 posted on 08/01/2013 6:54:02 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?

Yes. But I think it’s even worse than that. I think if they can’t find enough actual evidence they will manufacture it out of whole cloth. Who would dare doubt it or question them?


30 posted on 08/01/2013 6:56:57 PM PDT by null and void (You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
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To: 11th_VA

Can we get up a pool for when that p******* c******s will only be available at flea markets?


31 posted on 08/01/2013 7:01:41 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: 11th_VA

Wave goodbye to the nice drone!


32 posted on 08/01/2013 7:13:52 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: 11th_VA

“WTF was she googling that for at work !?!?!?!? “

More like why was she being SWATed by an ex employer?


33 posted on 08/01/2013 7:16:16 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: njslim

That’s why I keep all my files on a stick. I’ll eat it if I have to :)


34 posted on 08/01/2013 7:23:07 PM PDT by 11th_VA (It's all about culture, not color)
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To: 11th_VA

Snort


35 posted on 08/01/2013 7:26:03 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Goodbye America. Glad the majority of my years were spent during the good days.)
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To: Boogieman
Yep. Just remember to wrap your smartphone in tin foil, or crawl into the freezer, before you search for sensitive terms. Otherwise Big Brudda will get you!

In her case, Big Boss. The reality is that work computer traffic is routinely recorded, and searchable in a few seconds, in a way that work phone conversations are not. Even when recorded, phone conversations are a pain to monitor - voice recognition is at its infancy, and transcriptions are hit or miss, meaning that searching through phone conversations means listening for hours and hours, vs a few minutes worth of glancing through keyword searches for computer traffic.

I was extremely skeptical about the NSA siccing anyone onto this couple. There have got to have been millions of individual searches on the keywords since the Boston bombings. There is not enough police manpower to do these operations and conduct normal policing duties, not to mention the hue-and-cry, when hundreds of homes in the average township are besieged by assault rifle-wielding SWAT teams. Going back to my original point, anyone who wants to use the internet for non-work purposes during work hours should get a smartphone, and avoid the siren song of the company's free WiFi network.

36 posted on 08/01/2013 7:28:07 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: null and void

No, I think assuming that is a fact without any evidence is silly. Not every time someone dies that a politician might not like is it an assassination. Get some real evidence and then it might be worth getting worked up about.


37 posted on 08/01/2013 9:57:31 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: GraceG

“OMG an assault BackPack!!!!”

And I have two 21 quart pressure canners, numerous canning jars, tents, backpacks, and other items from when I was still involved in Scouting. Everything is for sale, but I am afraid to advertise them, especially on Craigslist.:-(


38 posted on 08/01/2013 10:51:33 PM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: 11th_VA

That was the best laugh I’ve had reading something online... in months. I just kepts laughing and laughing and there was more and more and it just compounded. I love your style, sir.


39 posted on 08/02/2013 12:04:54 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala

Have to confess, I didn’t write it - I found it going around the internet. But like you, I was rolling when I read it - had to post it :)


40 posted on 08/03/2013 12:13:48 PM PDT by 11th_VA (It's all about culture, not color)
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