Posted on 06/06/2013 3:09:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The National Security Agency's warrant for metadata on every single Verizon call for three months is jaw-dropping in its scope. Except, well, the NSA's surveillance of our communications is most likely much, much bigger than that. Technology has made it possible for the American government to spy on citizens to an extent East Germany could only dream of. Basically everything we say that can be traced digitally is being collected by the NSA. We're supposed to trust that our government will be much better behaved, but they're not, and the White House almost admits it. That doesn't mean they're admitting everything.
"On its face, the document suggests that the U.S. government regularly collects and stores all domestic telephone records," The Week's Marc Ambinder writes of Glenn Greenwald's scoop last night. "My own understanding is that the NSA routinely collects millions of domestic-to-domestic phone records. It does not do anything with them unless there is a need to search through them for lawful purposes." Previous reporting from many outlets suggests that's true. In 2006, USA Today's Leslie Cauley reported the NSA was secretly collecting call records with data from AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth. A source told Cauley, "It's the largest database ever assembled in the world" and that the NSA wanted "to create a database of every call ever made" within U.S. territory. Likewise, in 2011, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer spoke to former NSA crypto-mathematician Bill Binney, who "believes that the agency now stores copies of all e-mails transmitted in America, in case the government wants to retrieve the details later."(continued)
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Welcome to your digital anal exam from doctor O.
When obamacare kicks in it’ll be the only exam you’ll get.
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” — Winston Churchill
Direction Finding, or triangulation of a radio signal.
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And the left went nuts at the mere suggestion that the feds might soy on what books you are checking out of the public library.
What about using that encryption program called Pretty Good Privacy?
Has it been cracked, and if so, how long did it take to crack it?
I’d hate to be “that guy” but back when Bush was pushing the Patriot Act, a lot of people were attacked for opposing it.
Back then I thought, what happens if Hillary (I didn’t even know who Obummer was at the time) becomes President? But a lot of so called conservatives foamed at the mouth, squashed dissent, and pushed these government powers down our throats in a fit of post-911 hysteria.
Now we are reaping the rewards of their shortsightedness.
When my paternal grandfather, who left Russia at the tail end of the Revolution to gain freedom for himself and his then-future kids, went back to visit his remaining family in 1969, every single conversation of import was done via a long walk outside - and away from benches on the street or streetlights.
I fear that we are going to be reduced to the same here. There are so many laws and regulations of which we are not even aware, that every single person probably breaks the law several times a day. Now they have that much more leverage on us. That reminds me of Ayn Rand’s quote from “Atlas Shrugged”:
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We WANT them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted — and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
Nowhere in this article did I read ‘Facebook’ or ‘Twitter’. Why protect them?
Radio signals can be triangulated indeed.
The problem with CB, walkie talkies and ham radio is that they are all radio signals that can be df’ed.
Cb’ers operating out-of-band have been busted, and so have hams that have done the same.
Also the AM radio bootleggers; some of them were only using very low power transmitters covering only a few miles radius....
They weren’t the big guys offshore (boat/island/etc) using high-power rigs either.
Btw the high power guys got busted too.
Just a heads-up from a long-time techies.
What's interesting when I look for that comment via a search engine all I get is a single reference. It's to what you posted 40 minutes ago.
I believe it was Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.
What's interesting when I look for that comment via a search engine all I get is a single reference. It's to what you posted 40 minutes ago.
I believe it was Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.
Can you, or someone, locate that statement and when she made it?
Facebook and twitter have already been compromised.
Facebook accounts have been deleted when the poster wrote something that disagreed with the “party line”.
I use that term “party line” because that’s what we have now; the old phone system that had multiple people on one line, the neighbor could hear what you were saying.
Only now the “neighbor” is the feds, and they are NOT good neighbors!
Check this link:
Grab it before it vanishes, it wasn’t Lee, it was Waters.
I used a different search engine ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2TNrlIv2bY&feature=player_embedded
Found this when I went to the first page of the discussion.
Thanks. Much appreciated.
The bloc babushkas, school teachers, and assorted bureaucrats had a keen sense of hearing, or at least the people feared that there was always one trolling for intel. Residents readily perceived when an indiscreet neighbor would mysteriously disappear.
Makes me consider that the Soviets' motives for keeping that info away from the West was not so much to limit exposure to the generation living at that time, but to the future generations of the brainwashed West. When history was doomed to repeat, there would be no inconvenient history. The few scraps remaining could be dismissed as relics of a long-dead era. Ironic, considering that the totalitarians of today are all about accessing, collecting, and abusing electronic history footprints. When despots can craft history into a weapon, despots love history.
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