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Maybe the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government's Ever Sent
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/blog/maybe-the-most-orwellian-text-message-ever-sent ^

Posted on 01/22/2014 6:55:01 PM PST by TigerClaws

“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”

That's a text message that thousands of Ukrainian protesters spontaneously received on their cell phones today, as a new law prohibiting public demonstrations went into effect. It was the regime's police force, sending protesters the perfectly dystopian text message to accompany the newly minted, perfectly dystopian legislation. In fact, it's downright Orwellian (and I hate that adjective, and only use it when absolutely necessary, I swear).

But that's what this is: it's technology employed to detect noncompliance, to hone in on dissent. The NY Times reports that the "Ukrainian government used telephone technology to pinpoint the locations of cell phones in use near clashes between riot police officers and protesters early on Tuesday." Near. Using a cell phone near a clash lands you on the regime's hit list.

(Excerpt) Read more at motherboard.vice.com ...


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To: TigerClaws

Judge Dredd was unavailable for comment after justice was dealt to those resisting arrest.


21 posted on 01/22/2014 7:29:30 PM PST by A message
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To: Redcitizen

An aluminized Mylar bag might make a good cell phone accessory. Batteries aren’t removable from many.

http://www.absolutesci.com/store/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=2041&cat=Bags+%2D+Static+Shielding+%2D+Zip+Top+%2839%29


23 posted on 01/22/2014 7:34:01 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Good idea. I was thinking of my old flip phone. It was easy to access the battery on that phone.


24 posted on 01/22/2014 7:35:47 PM PST by Redcitizen (Never bring a tank to a Chuck Norris fight.)
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To: RC one
going off grid is looking increasingly reasonable

But almost impossible.

Unless you've got the wilderness skills of a Bear Grylls or a Les Stroud, it's damn near impossible to completely unhook from the gubmint matrix.

25 posted on 01/22/2014 7:38:47 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: TigerClaws

Ping


26 posted on 01/22/2014 7:42:15 PM PST by logi_cal869
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To: ConradofMontferrat
I have a simple answer to all this crud. I DON’T USE A CELL PHONE!

Yet you post to Free Republic on a computer which has a unique IP address, that can be traced directly to your street address, and YOU.

27 posted on 01/22/2014 7:42:29 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: TigerClaws

It’s nice that they acknowledge that you have properly registered to joint the protest...


28 posted on 01/22/2014 8:37:42 PM PST by null and void (We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
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To: COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; opentalk; ..

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

29 posted on 01/22/2014 8:39:10 PM PST by null and void (We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
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To: Stonewall Jackson; Jack Black; Travis McGee
I dare someone to say that this will never happen here.

It'll never happen here…
Ok, I can't even type that with a straight face.


Have a brochure I made on interacting with government agents:
Stop, Drop, and Cower

30 posted on 01/22/2014 8:44:57 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Revolting cat!

File this as reason #439 not to carry an electronic pacifier.


31 posted on 01/22/2014 8:53:20 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: OneWingedShark

Love the brochure. Sadly, some of my coworkers would believe everything in there.


32 posted on 01/22/2014 9:21:58 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: TigerClaws

If the protesters are even modestly creative, they won’t need cell phones to oganize, act, or whatever. I can also see:

Dissident to Mom: Please take my cell phone with you today to (location 10 km away from the protest.)

Dissident now has “proof” he or she was not at the protest.


33 posted on 01/23/2014 12:15:10 AM PST by Paul R. (We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
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To: FreedomPoster; Redcitizen
An aluminized Mylar bag might make a good cell phone accessory. Batteries aren’t removable from many.

Those bags are for static shielding during shipping or storage. Are they proof against remote activation?

34 posted on 01/23/2014 4:38:05 AM PST by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: Old Sarge

Put a phone in the bag, fold the top over, and try calling the phone.

If it doesn’t receive the call, the bag works.


35 posted on 01/23/2014 6:24:03 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: null and void

you have been notified now we kill you


36 posted on 01/23/2014 7:28:37 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Old Sarge; Redcitizen

It ought to kill RF.

Put your cell phone in one, on, and see if you can call it.


37 posted on 01/23/2014 6:02:09 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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