"Sure; may I see your warrant? You don't have one? Then you may leave now. You are trespassing."
No, I'm not comfortable with this trade-off. Not even a little bit.
Very different than what whas reported yesterday.
It looks like her old company was just being cautious.
If six plainly dressed guys get out of unmarked cars and approach my house, I am going to very seriously wonder about their intentions.
:: 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.
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...
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.
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.
ANYONE believing this Admin when they tell us they are not reading your emails or your web browsing?????
Should I answer the door, and they say they want to search, I'll have them read the door mat. If they hand me a warrant, they can come in. Otherwise, they are out of here.
Everything I have in this house is legal, but I don't want them messing around with my self defense weapons and perhaps seeing my battery fed security alarms of different types. No warrant, no lookie.
Never in my life would I have thought we should be worried about the privacy of our homes and possessions. It brings back every book or film I ever saw about searches of the Nazi Brownshirts, Gestapo, and the Russian KGB, and those entities not stopping at searching, but also rounding up those whose houses they went in.
We have to be careful now what words we put on the internet, what searches we do - we are under martial law, Gestapo/KGB tactics, it just doesn't yet have the words, Martial Law, officially printed on what is happening to us.
It's OK, it's the other guy this time. I'm a good citizen, why would they want to bother me?
When the commies start to run out of money, they have a habit of MURDERING people to get more!
Enjoy your Police State America.