Military spy unit resurrects domestic tracking database

Tech 1984 ^ | 06/21/10 | Tech 1984

[oc-flyfish]

For those of you who thought the Talon domestic surveillance system was dead... it's back! Talon 2.0 coupled with the recent legislation giving the Feds the power to seize control over private networks = not a pretty picture.

[ilgipper]

Bush is listening to us again. That evil Bush.

[ilgipper]

Bush is listening to us again. That evil Bush.

[oc-flyfish]

Hahaha. Bush is the cause of all evil in this world. Obama said so!

[DTogo]

And what makes Tech 1984 a legitimate source of information to take seriously?

[Col Frank Slade]

That evil Rove !

[DebraAI]

I notice one weird thing for 2 days now. Getting on many conservative sites with high Alexa ratings is slightly difficult. Including this site Free republic. I asked a few friends to try as well and I tried from my home in Long Island and from my NYC office and loading takes a very very long time. I bet many people leave because of it so my question is can Obama be doing it? Could he be testing some internet filter to suppress Free republic and other sites of a right wing nature? Just a thought...

[oc-flyfish]

Read their about page. They also broke the news on the proposed government take over of private networks before the mainstream media. Only you can make the determination.

[oc-flyfish]

That is a scary thought. Hopefully not the case.

You can check to see what servers your traffic routes through by typing “tracert freerepublic.com” at the command prompt of a Windows system.

[itssme]

Freerepublic was down for a period of time the weekend before last, and again this past weekend. Seems to be happening on weekends with some frequency. Who would we ask on Freerepublic about these occurrences?

[oc-flyfish]

When I executed the command it went from my ISP, to Level3 (backbone provider) to the ISP for Free Republic. If there was any monitoring taking place it would likely be at Level 3 although it could be the ISP for FR.

[b4its2late]

[Michael Barnes]

You wouldn’t see anything out of the ordinary. If “they” were sniffing, it would be on a spanned port on the switch FR sits on. You wouldn’t even know it was there.

[Constitution Day]

FYI

[oc-flyfish]

Yup, that’s right. Forgot about that.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

I agree with the “it’s taking a long time” on FreeRepublic. I just tried to get on Foxnews and the same thing. I think there’s something to what you’re saying....IMHO!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

You wouldn’t see anything out of the ordinary. If “they” were sniffing, it would be on a spanned port on the switch FR sits on. You wouldn’t even know it was there.

Somthing is boogering (great word, BTW) up the works. I don't normally wear a tin foil hat....and, don't think I am in this case.

[Ancient Drive]

Bush is at it again!

[itssme]

HOW DO WE GET A MESSAGE TO FREE REPUBLIC ABOUT THIS PROBLEM? WE NEED AN ANSWER...TO THE MODERATOR OR JIM ROBINSON, COULD YOU PLEASE HELP US OUT WITH THIS PROBLEM?

[ExSoldier]

Not just getting access here, but posting comments. For example just waiting for the post screen to get loaded I was able to get almost halfway thru writing a grocery list. But it's not like that on OTHER sites. I don't know if I'd give OBOZO credit for this, MAYBE it can be explained in a more positive light? Maybe FR is getting a ton more hits than normal from outside and the bandwidth is getting sluggish? I'm not a tech guy just a guess. Pinging other folks for an opinion.