Posted on 10/30/2013 8:41:04 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck
You can toleratte a lot of spying if you trust the spy and his intentions.
Obviously, no one trusts Obama.
I am not mad at the NSA for spying abroad. I am infuriated that they’re spying on us. I would be infuriated if they weren’t spying on foreign sources.
I am additionally irate at the fact that Google is acting as the technology arm of the US government. People around the world should be eschewing Google products, including the Android operating system.
It used to be that Americans could choose to not participate in society if that was their wish. They could hole up in a cabin in the woods, generate their own power if they so chose, sink a well, live off the land, not participate on the Internet or in any other manner.
Now the government has cameras on every road. They fly drones over vast stretches of land to check for human activity and monitor it. They hassle you at your door for not filling out a census form. They monitor what you purchase online and via credit card. They know where you keep your money. You can no way insulate yourself from the government leviathan anymore. That should infuriate every American.
The Google barges are just large floating server farms that use the water to cool them.. or so I heard somewhere.
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The last pic looks like the Klinton Library.
If you have reasonable suspicions of illegal activity, and some evidence to back it up, you can obtain a warrant to eavesdrop from a court of law.
Without that, you should not be able to listen in on the private conversations of American citizens.
Internationally, nobody is obligated to obey any rules of privacy. International electronic communications have been fair game since international electronic communications were invented.
Well said. Complacency reigns. Bread and Circuses.
For the year and a half that I was unemployed, and still had a connection to the Internet, I did NOT go to the library, because it cost bus fare, which I could not at that time recoup.
All it took was a USB extension cord, a ‘one pound coffee can’, and a USB thumb-stick WIFI antenna!
If little ol’ me could do that, and I am not an expert in these things, flat plastic panels might house quite a fancy piece of antenna, I might think.
Wardriving, were you?
I hear the very best piece of equipment is a Pringles box :).
This is not news and it makes us look stupid to be upset by it.
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Exactly.
The Google barges are using water for cooling?
Is that Mickey Mouse dancing on top of the Box?
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
~Abraham Lincoln, The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838
It’s Mickey and Minnie Ice Capades.
The British have armored vehicles?
I thought they downsized their military to insignifcance.
If it’s a big data center that could be.
Will Greenpeace send in divers to measure the water temp for localized warming and habitat destruction?
I’m not eschewing intelligence gathering in foreign lands. I’m lambasting intelligence gathering here by our own government to whatever ends they deem “right” for themselves. I’m making an example by way of demonstration that foreign governments are increasingly seeing America as a usurper of sovereignty. Perform your intelligence gathering, but don’t make it so obvious as to be as plain as the nose on your face.
We are tracked by cameras on every building across every intersection, on every street sign and billboard. We are seen by digital eyes everywhere and at all times. Even in our own homes, the cameras attached to Internet-connected devices could be used to spy against us. How is that legal or promotional of our liberty? We can certainly do away with our smartphones in lieu of home telephones, but even those can be tapped and tracked. We can certainly do away with our televisions and our computers, but even our library reading habits are monitored. We could move to the country, set up an underground network of storage bunkers and safe havens against nuclear fallout or government tyranny, but drones will know where to find us, and a vast array of tools could be used to locate us and smoke us out of the holes we create for our own safety and well being. We could eschew every technological advancement of the last 100 years, and somehow, the government would know where we are.
There are no practical ways to blind the government to our goings on. How does that make us free? We are slaves to our own government tracking us, making notes. Certainly they could use living, breathing humans to follow us everywhere, “minders” if you will, but at least they could be “lost.”
Face it, there are no avenues for privacy left in this world. There are no avenues for private discussion with another person. What the Founders pulled off over 200 years ago will likely prove improbably in today’s world. No longer are oceans separating us and slowing communications. Everything is instant. Our only hope, and it’s truly just a hope not a practical plan, is that just men rule us and our chains rest lightly upon our shoulders.
God save us.
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