A humorous editorial concerning Big Brother's interest in online searches.
And a cartoon about the NSA wiretapping.
Good for Google!
It really isn't the government's business what is searched for. Some people do searches for knowledge's sake, and not because they desire to be a criminal! For the government to simply assume that your searching is for malicious purposes is absolutely unreasonable. Google designed their search engine, and are entitled to the information they receive by using it. When the government tries to stick their snout into other people's business, that is just stealing, plain and simple. I don't care who is doing it!
If they really want data about what people search for, why don't they write their own search engine? Oh wait, that's right, because first off, it would most likely be crap, and second, no one would use it because the gov would be willing to use the information received against its users in an instant!
Loved the cartoon too. Thanks for those links, Mike Rochip.
All (or pretty much all?) data on the Internet is routed via Echelon which is NSA's computer system that intercepts all FAX, email, SMS, phone calls and other Internet traffic.
Their software have speech-to-text that translates your speech on phone to a text. Then the text is stored in the database of their computer systems. The text is scanned for predefined words such as "terrorism", "bomb", and if such strings/words are found in the text, the database entry gets "flagged".
Are you serious?! Do you have any links to articles about this? What happens when they start flagging words like "sex", "angry", and "kill"? This is not cool, not cool at all.
Are you serious?! Do you have any links to articles about this? What happens when they start flagging words like "sex", "angry", and "kill"? This is not cool, not cool at all.
If you Google NSA Echelon you will find quite a bit of info from various sources. You will also see references to the 300 words that causes the NSA to look at a website inluding speedbump, basement, Bob, replay, etc. although there is no indication where the list comes from so I would be suspicious about its relevance or accuracy. Of course if you do Google NSA Echelon or read the three hundred words the Big Brother Lokoike Tracking and Elimination System will be activated .
...if you do Google NSA Echelon or read the three hundred words the Big Brother Lokoike Tracking and Elimination System will be activated
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Oh! So that would explain the armed ninja's that keep showing up at my house!
"It is legal to destroy citizen privacy for the embetterment of our country, " "Wiretapping is NOT illegal" G. W. Bush, 2006.
1) Who in hell made Bush God?
2) I know police officers about 8 miles from here that were involved in a conspiracy that were white. There were 3 that conspired to steal money from mexicans when they pulled them over because "they wouldn't know english" There is also one that I think is still loose that is involved in child porn. We trust these idiots with OUR privacy? Wake up people, no way in hell. No matter who these police or government officials are, do we REALLY trust them with OUR privacy? Think back...., Clinton / Lewinsky? It ain't sex, also the I didn't inhale so I didn't smoke it?
3) If they get away with this with OUR permission, it won't be long before they do AWAY with it WITHOUT our permission. Airport terminals already are equipped with scanners similar to the x-ray that can show the entire human form. Repeatedly we have seen in the media that these perverts cannot handle beautiful women and the like (or men if it is women). Do we trust them NOT to lust after our wives when they see them stark naked on terminals (except the software that clothes the privates with digital fig leaves)?
4) Give away your privacy if you wish, but I am not afraid to die to defend mine. Terrorists? Potential Terrorists? EVERYONE has the potential to do evil, but not everyone does. Does this mean they are using that to eliminate ANYONE they want gone under the guise they had the possibility to do wrong, they were "preventing" it from happening? Who the hell said they can know what a person is gonna do BEFORE they do it? Don't you ever change your mind?
Thanks, concerned citizen
Who the hell said they can know what a person is gonna do BEFORE they do it? Don't you ever change your mind?
Maybe Minority Report isn't so far-fetched after all.
"It is legal to destroy citizen privacy for the embetterment of our country, " "Wiretapping is NOT illegal" G. W. Bush, 2006.
Bush is an idiot and more dumb than a monkey.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
Are you serious?! Do you have any links to articles about this? What happens when they start flagging words like "sex", "angry", and "kill"? This is not cool, not cool at all.
Yes, I am serious.
Bush is an idiot and more dumb than a monkey.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
Yes, I am serious.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
I agree with you eldmannen. There is no reason to be fearful.
1) People let tv tell them when to be afraid. "Today, we have an ORANGE terrorist alert, no wait, make that a DOUBLE orange alert. So if you weren't afraid yesterday, today you HAVE to be afraid, it's like, we force you to.
WE control your fear level." Do they really have the potential to know there "might" or "might not" be more bad things happening? How many times have they said 97% chance of rain and yet the sun was shining? Do you really trust these idiots? I recall one year they predicted it would snow but the sun came out all beautiful and such.
2) People are afraid because they are afraid to die. They will do anything to preserve their life. I am not afraid because I am not afraid to die. I was not here before I was born and back to dust I will return, so I will defend what I think is right even if it COSTS my life. Being a wimp and being afraid to stand up under the excuse "they might kill me if I don't let them invade my privacy, screw my wife, sell me into slavery..." is highly looked down upon. If enough people STAND THE HELL UP, then they will be AFRAID to do anything. They are afraid now. That is why they are trying so hard to GRADUALLY get critical mass (enough control so that the majority will be under their control) Then they can do anything they want and will have little or no resistance perhaps.
3) "I got to have the rims, man, cause everyone else does" f*** everyone else, I am starting a new trend and being me. If they don't it, they can f***ity f*** themselves on the lowest tar pits in hell. I do not do things because "everyone else" is doing it, or it makes me "popular" but I do it because THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO DO. Why live life being unhappily conformist to everyone no matter what they do?
4) If I believe something is right, though 99.999999999999999999999999999999% of humans believe that is wrong, I still will stand for it. Hell f***ing yeah!!!
Way to go Eldmannen! You are so right!