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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5.56mm
Is that still going on? I can remember back in 1958, when I was a teenager, I knew another teenager, especially oriented toward electronics, who built and operated a radio station that transmitted an AM signal that traveled on power lines and broadcast quality radio to homes in the vicinity. Completely legal, in this case.
Being interested in a radio career, I participated as an announcer/DJ on this cool station. It was good training.
Still going on at least up to the mid 90’s; during the klintoon era there were alot of them rebroadcasting satellite audio from anti klintoon broadcasters.
Not sure now
Interesting about using the AC wires ;)
Thanks, I went back through my posts but couldn’t find
it.
Those pushing and voting for the Patriot Act made the unfortunate error of assuming there would never be a Marxist dick-tator in the White House.
Read my tag. Screw ‘em double time.
Think of all that delicious blackmail material. But the regime would never use it, Right? Right?
A few years ago, I disengaged from Facebook, because the information on display was too personal. Friends and family all mocked my “Paranoia”.
Well, here we are, two years later, and FB is just the tip of a humungous iceberg.
If it's been cracked then the NSA would be the LAST place that would admit it.
This is something that I'm simply astounded more people don't ask: how can this be used against me. -- You can see the same things in the War on Drugs and how letting the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, amendments be violated "because they're druggies and/or drug-runners" has degraded those amendments for the rest of us.
Oh but that was the DNC’s database. You don’t think they would CHEAT and steal NSA data, do you??????
About 3 years ago do to urging from friends who had written books and a couple of young relatives, I joined FB.
My wife and I were amazed at how many people crawled out of the past and basements to become my/our friends.
Many of which, I/we didn’t want to communicate with nor have any social interaction.
So we stopped going there and replying to anything from FB.
Same here.
This is just the beginning and we've all been duped.
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