[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'I')'VE BEEN HAD.

[Hermes]

I respect that you admit you've been had. I judge that most people in these forums, once it becomes clear that they've made a mistake, lash out at everyone else in the thread and go stomping off elsewhere. I'm glad you didn't.

[cow6565]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jakeemon', 'Y')ou guys are missing the big picture, these units are receivers NOT transmitters. Even if they were installing cameras and mics, how do they get that information back to the facist dictators? It is relatively easy to pick up a signal using basic electronics, but a whole nuther ball game to transmit.

1) Where are they transmitting to? A satellite? Don't think so!! Land based receiver? Maybe but the range would be very limited going by the size of the box.

2) Imagine the tetrabytes of information they would receive from each box, and how do they screen it all for useful information? All the would get out of mine is me scracthing my balls every twenty mins.
out.


Come on guys I love a good conspiracy theory but this one sucks.

[mattduke]

link

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Texas state Senate voted Monday to give federal, state and local authorities the ability to track and identify every passing vehicle on state highways. The provision calling for "automatic license plate identification cameras" was slipped into the Senate version of the must-pass Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) reauthorization bill.

[smallpoxgirl]

I'll have to add that to my list of reasons not to ever go to Texas.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'I')'ll have to add that to my list of reasons not to ever go to Texas.

[cbxer55]

[Jotapay]

I obviously don't approve of the Big Brother cameras, but I cannot wholeheartedly recommend enough the importance of staying away from Texas. It is a primitive culture where people still ride horses to work, endorse human-animal sex, and child sacrifice occurs before football games. Bathing is frowned upon where temps are 100+ on humid days ("You think you're better than me?"). Women drink, gossip and play cards all day, leaving their children to play in the pasture alongside the animals, and their men unfed. The Church conducts regular home inspections for un-Churchy material and drags offenders before the Inquisition for castration. There are regular gun battles in the street over the smallest of personal offenses.

Spread the word. Stop people from moving here, for the love of god. It defies logic why people are coming here. It's unlivable and much worse than you can imagine. Seriously, Californians, Northeasterners, Coloradians, turn back.

[Windmills]

I was fine with the photo radar cameras--they really keep the jerks in line around here. But tracking everything? Wow. I don't know if I have a need to feel that "safe."

Oh, well. How long are freeways going to last, anyway?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Texas state Senate voted Monday to give federal, state and local authorities the ability to track and identify every passing vehicle on state highways. The provision calling for "automatic license plate identification cameras" was slipped into the Senate version of the must-pass Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) reauthorization bill.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'L')ooks like a great opportunity for some target practice.

[pablonite]

Something has happened to the meaning of anonymous on the internet, it has completely disappeared. Having worked in the back orifice of a large ISP for a few years early in the 21st century we would only acknowledge written requests for info on a subscriber and it was granted only in the cases of child porn, suicide threats, death threats and this sort of thing. Never for copyright violations since we would just disable hosting whatever material was in question.Before I left we were all signing non-disclosure agreements and I knew assorted monitoring and traffic management equipment was being installed into the hub sites with strange and sometimes unexplainable service issues arising soon after. During this period of upgrading they were sticking cameras into our ceiling and all sorts of monitoring programs on the workstations...I left and found a more enjoyable place to work. I told my manager straight out the place was creeping me out but it was about my 5th in 3 years so I didn't even know her, she didn't care.

I guess they just a built a direct portal into the internet and charge the .gov on a per click basis according to this article which doesn't really suprise me in the least. It might you though?

Following the Money Trail
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16497

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')..Unsurprisingly, the threshold for obtaining personal records is exceedingly low and "very few of these methods require an intercept order."

All the government need do to obtain a pen register or trap and trace order, which examine to/from/subject lines of email messages, URLs of viewed web pages, search terms, telephone numbers dialed and the like, is to unilaterally declare that information obtained via this backdoor route is "relevant" to an ongoing criminal or counterterrorist investigation.

In other words, give us everything we want and move along!

...No small matter, considering that should a court ever find avaricious telecoms and ISPs liable for violating the rights of their customers, fines could mount into the billions.

...Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009.

...According to Cryptome, "The information in the document which counters Yahoo's customer privacy policy suggests a clearing of the air is in order to assure customer reliance on Yahoo's published promises of trust.

Well, just how much does Yahoo charge for their dubious shenanigans with the secret state? Wired reports: "According to this list, Yahoo charges the government about $30 to $40 for the contents, including e-mail, of a subscriber's account. It charges $40 to $80 for the contents of a Yahoo group."

[pablonite]

From what I understand it was a social engineering attack on google employee email accounts. Why would the NSA need to openly admit working with google on something like this? When most of what they do with tax payers money is secret, why come out in the open with this? Why not just collaborate with google in secret?

It looks like building a consensus for what has already happened.

Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 57_pf.html
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.

Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google -- and its users -- from future attack.

[Jotapay]

And people wonder why some of us don't have a Facebook, MySpace account.....

[pablonite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'A')nd people wonder why some of us don't have a Facebook, MySpace account.....

[Mower]

The NSA has been up to no good for years, that agency is pure evil now. Out of control, violating rights. It needs to be shut down.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')ighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation's homeland security chief said Friday.

[Sixstrings]

Well that's nothing new -- it's always been the case that of course we can have more "security" if we don't have civil liberties. But the tradeoff for having "maximum security" is living in tyranny.

[rangerone314]

I wonder if Napolitano is afraid that terrorists will kill Americans by polluting the water supply and poisoning the oceans.

Oops... the Big corporations already beat them to that.