Posted on 05/03/2012 3:19:52 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
Is the Obama campaign stealing information about you through your computer?
I inadvertently clicked on an Obama ad on Facebook. The ad linked me directly to www.barackobama.com.
I tried to escape the site immediately, but my computer mouse "froze" for about 30 seconds. It wouldn't move at all. I could not click out or do anything but wait.
Just to be sure it wasn't a fluke, I went to the site again (as much as I hated to give the Obama campaign any more "hits"), and the same thing happened: Mouse Freeze.
I am assuming that the Obama site was collecting information about me during that 30 seconds while my mouse was locked in place. Why else would they freeze up my computer while I was on their site?
Can websites you visit put a hold on your mouse, so that you can't move while they gather information from your computer? Is this legal?
I have not experienced this mouse lock-up in the course of normal Internet usage or visiting other sites.
Even as you watch your own hand check the box, you will have no motor function over your body. And then, even as you scream at your hands inside your mind to tear up the ballot, you will begin walking as you hear the command "Forward." And then you will watch as you step in line and hand your ballot in... the nightmare has already begun, you just don't know it yet.
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