Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker UltimaDork
7/24/12 12:20 p.m.

How NSA’s Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life

I hate it when a good tinfoil hat can't even protect you.

bravenrace
bravenrace PowerDork
7/24/12 12:21 p.m.

In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:

Do you have one? Mine's got a leak.

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH PowerDork
7/24/12 12:24 p.m.

I just assumed that was happening the whole time, I mean they had ECHELON and CARNIVORE not long after you had to dial directly into any "site" you wanted to connect to...

Duke
Duke PowerDork
7/24/12 12:24 p.m.

And this is news, how? An outrage, certainly, a travesty, without doubt... but it's anything other than news.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker UltimaDork
7/24/12 12:29 p.m.
GameboyRMH wrote: I just assumed that was happening the whole time, I mean they had ECHELON and CARNIVORE not long after you had to dial directly into any "site" you wanted to connect to...

Confirmation is not any less unnerving having just assumed it all along. It is just that you can say "I told you so" to all the people who called you a paranoid nut job in the past. At least there is that.

Appleseed
Appleseed PowerDork
7/24/12 12:31 p.m.

Of COURSE the NSA is doing this. Its what they do. Duh!

4cylndrfury
4cylndrfury UltimaDork
7/24/12 12:41 p.m.

just figure out a way to get anonymous pissed off about it, and theyll figure out a way to make the algorithms all point to http://www.abevigoda.com/

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker UltimaDork
7/24/12 12:44 p.m.

Are you kidding? Anonymous is the NSA!

4cylndrfury
4cylndrfury UltimaDork
7/24/12 12:46 p.m.

No, Seriously, Anonymous

...I never made the connection

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker UltimaDork
7/24/12 12:48 p.m.
4cylndrfury wrote: No, Seriously, Anonymous ...I never made the connection

I'm kinda/sorta kidding although who can really say for sure. I used to think Air America was just a bunch of ex-military pilots who went in to business. Then I saw Lethal Weapon.

Aeromoto
Aeromoto HalfDork
7/24/12 12:50 p.m.

I hope the NSA enjoys my dick jokes, because that's all I ever put on F'book

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker UltimaDork
7/24/12 12:58 p.m.
Aeromoto wrote: I hope the NSA enjoys my dick jokes, because that's all I ever put on F'book

Look at the diagram again. Phone conversations, email, IM, both personal and work. Nothing you say or type can ever be considered private unless you are speaking in person.

Now if they could just get rid of that pesky ability for us to assemble enmass and/or to protest... hrmmm...

keethrax
keethrax HalfDork
7/24/12 1:04 p.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: I'm kinda/sorta kidding although who can really say for sure. I used to think Air America was just a bunch of ex-military pilots who went in to business. Then I saw Lethal Weapon.

My wife flies in an ex-Air America plane semi-regularly.

Aeromoto
Aeromoto HalfDork
7/24/12 1:05 p.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:
Aeromoto wrote: I hope the NSA enjoys my dick jokes, because that's all I ever put on F'book
Look at the diagram again. Phone conversations, email, IM, both personal and work. Nothing you say or type can ever be considered private unless you are speaking in person. Now if they could just get rid of that pesky ability for us to assemble enmass and/or to protest... hrmmm...

Well.... f'book, phone calls, emails, IMs... once again... dick jokes, dick jokes, dick jokes.

N Sperlo
N Sperlo PowerDork
7/24/12 1:09 p.m.

Yawn.... So, what's new?

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker UltimaDork
7/24/12 1:12 p.m.
N Sperlo wrote: Yawn.... So, what's new?

Actual whistleblowers?

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH PowerDork
7/24/12 1:14 p.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:
4cylndrfury wrote: No, Seriously, Anonymous ...I never made the connection
I'm kinda/sorta kidding although who can really say for sure.

There is actually a conspiracy theory that they're a bunch of agent provocateurs used to give an excuse for laws removing online anonymity.

N Sperlo
N Sperlo PowerDork
7/24/12 1:19 p.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:
N Sperlo wrote: Yawn.... So, what's new?
Actual whistleblowers?

Whistleblowers are new? Are they even whistleblowers? I mean, this E36 M3 is allowed to be done since they past that homeland security bullE36 M3 around 01-02.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker UltimaDork
7/24/12 1:23 p.m.
GameboyRMH wrote:
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:
4cylndrfury wrote: No, Seriously, Anonymous ...I never made the connection
I'm kinda/sorta kidding although who can really say for sure.
There is actually a conspiracy theory that they're a bunch of agent provocateurs used to give an excuse for laws removing online anonymity.

I have heard it - in a way it makes sense as much as ap's at Occupy making clowns of themselves for the media. It's very similar to tactics used on socialists in the first half of the last century. In a world where the US government can legally kill an american citizen abroad with no trial because he is "hard to catch", who is to say where and if there is a line they won't cross. Never bet on self regulated rightousness.

I also find it funny that the US mail is fast becoming the easiest way to send an anonymous comunication.

fasted58
fasted58 UltraDork
7/24/12 1:24 p.m.

'Bubba the Love Sponge'

lols

Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon MegaDork
7/24/12 2:46 p.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: I also find it funny that the US mail is fast becoming the easiest way to send an anonymous comunication.

Don't even count on that. If you spray an envelope with Freon and take a picture while it's wet, the mail inside can be read at their leisure and no one would ever be the wiser.

DustoffDave
DustoffDave HalfDork
7/24/12 3:16 p.m.
Curmudgeon wrote:
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: I also find it funny that the US mail is fast becoming the easiest way to send an anonymous comunication.
Don't even count on that. If you spray an envelope with Freon and take a picture while it's wet, the mail inside can be read at their leisure and no one would ever be the wiser.

I know what I'm going to be testing out when I get home tonight (on my lazy live-in bro-in-law's mail)...

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