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Report: Blogger gets visit from cops for Googling “pressure cookers” and “backpacks?”
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| 08/01/2013
| MARY KATHARINE HAM
Posted on 08/02/2013 7:28:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
They asked if they could search the house..."Sure; may I see your warrant? You don't have one? Then you may leave now. You are trespassing."
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:32:11 AM PDT
by
JimRed
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To: SeekAndFind
This is what the trade-offs look like, and we have to decide if were comfortable with them. No, I'm not comfortable with this trade-off. Not even a little bit.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:32:29 AM PDT
by
Irenic
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To: SeekAndFind
Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee. The former employees computer searches took place on this employees workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms pressure cooker bombs and backpacks. Very different than what whas reported yesterday.
It looks like her old company was just being cautious.
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08/02/2013 7:37:12 AM PDT
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:40:37 AM PDT
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To: Balding_Eagle
"It looks like her old company was just being cautious."
Completely understandable. Come back when you have a warrant.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:45:02 AM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
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To: SeekAndFind
If six plainly dressed guys get out of unmarked cars and approach my house, I am going to very seriously wonder about their intentions.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:46:44 AM PDT
by
cdcdawg
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To: PowderMonkey
“and was asked if they could come in. Sure, he said.”
No warrant needed
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:49:57 AM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
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To: SeekAndFind
:: three black SUVs in front of our house; two at the curb in front and one pulled up behind my husbands Jeep in the driveway ::
To start, the gentlemen should have been met on the front porch, 1911 in the homeowners hand, and told to move the vehicle that was trespassing in the driveway.
Next, ALL members would be commanded to appear on the fron line and questions will be answered there. The front door will be locked and the key pocketed.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:50:46 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Balding_Eagle
It looks like her old company was just being cautious
To: Balding_Eagle
Very different than what whas reported yesterday. It looks like her old company was just being cautious.
Assuming they weren't, um, pressured into providing their betters in The Government a fig-leaf.
Of all the people who've ever googled both "pressure cookers" and "backpacks" in the last year, Our Betters decide to noisily investigate a blogger?
Methinks they are trying to intimidate us into thinking we're all under the microscope. That would also explain why they so publicly demanded everyone's passwords from ISPs last week.
Pure Kabuki for the masses.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:53:29 AM PDT
by
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:54:50 AM PDT
by
null and void
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To: null and void
Assuming they weren't, um, pressured into providing their betters in The Government a fig-leaf. How would the government know to pressure the comapny.
I think this is just a blogger turning time theft from her company into a publicity stunt.
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posted on
08/02/2013 8:02:40 AM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
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To: Balding_Eagle
Never consent to a warrantless search of your home. Ever. To do otherwise is to grant consent to search for the "elephant in the breadbox." "Citizen! These bank statements and contracts on the desk of your home office appear suspicious. Accordingly, we're freezing all your financial accounts and contracts while we question your clients. Oh, and we'll have to seize all your firearms as well while we sort this out."
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posted on
08/02/2013 8:02:54 AM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: SeekAndFind
This person has no survival instincts. There are so many things wrong with what he/she did.
1) Don’t let them in without warrant.
2) Using google. Don’t use google or bing, or yahoo, etc. Use Startpage or another search that encrypts the searches, and can encrypt the page visits.
3) If you are really paranoid, disguise the searchs with other words to make it seem innocuous.
4) Don’t use work computers for ANYTHING personal. Wait until you get home, where you can be protected by personal VPNs, and other encryption tools.
5) Don’t let them in without warrant.
6) Don’t let them in without warrant.
These people don’t have a clue...
To: SeekAndFind
Another bummer .... I really do need a pc for canning. I have not done any on-line searches since it appears lots of ‘monitoring’ of some sort is going on, nor have I purchased one yet because I would imagine stores might be reporting purchases of these items to some authority somewhere. If I eventually buy one, it will be using cash.
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posted on
08/02/2013 8:07:35 AM PDT
by
MissMagnolia
(You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
To: SeekAndFind
Read the whole thing because shes a good writer: The comment by Mary K. Ham that the story is well written is nonsense. It appears the subject searched pressure cookers. Her husband searched backpacks. And the story says one was recently let go and the Google searches for pressure cookers and backpacks were done at work from the same IP address. Yet, the story says she looked for pressure cookers and he looked for backpacks. One of the couple was recently let go. Unless both worked for the same company in the same cubical, the logic just doesn't follow. Crappy writing.
To: PowderMonkey
Never consent to a warrantless search of your home. Ever.That I agree with.
But he did, and did so willingly.
This is all a stunt to bring them publicity.
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posted on
08/02/2013 8:12:58 AM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(When America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
To: SeekAndFind
ANYONE believing this Admin when they tell us they are not reading your emails or your web browsing?????
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posted on
08/02/2013 8:15:45 AM PDT
by
Cheerio
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