Google something totally innocent, house gets raided by the cops

[aborgman]

Protect your home WiFi network folks.

-Mike

Good luck with that...

XKeyScore allows the agency to retrieve virtually any Internet activity from any intelligence target: Internet browsing, Facebook chats, the contents of emails (not just their addresses).

The program even apparently has the ability to decrypt data transmitted through Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) or encoded with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption.

 

[Epitaph04]

Damn...there goes all that time spent on coming up with a good password.

 

[Eric Perry]

Damn...there goes all that time spent on coming up with a good password.

Make it vulgar toward the gub'ment. They enjoy a good joke, as they are one.

 

[MJ5150]

Good luck with that...

I'm not aware of that application being widely available to the public.

-Mike

 

[nutdog]

No harm, no foul.
If you are not breaking any laws, it all works out.

Marine in my great state arrested and held against his will solely on the basis of his private Facebook posts:

http://www.examiner.com/article/mar...ordered-to-be-released-by-circuit-court-judge

After he was confined by a "Special Justice" (what the hell is that?) to a psychiatric ward another judge eventually "dismissed the petition for involuntary commitment on the grounds that the petition 'is so devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case or controversy.'”

No harm, no foul?

 

[chicago_mike]

If your not breaking any laws....

Is this what we have come to? Thats its okay to be snooped on by everybody? Thats this is all okay?

 

[thebandcircle]

Anyone see the actor with no legs after the bombing...?

 

[Webtroll]

Protect your home WiFi network folks.

-Mike

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[RattnR0ll]

Marine in my great state arrested and held against his will solely on the basis of his private Facebook posts:

http://www.examiner.com/article/mar...ordered-to-be-released-by-circuit-court-judge

After he was confined by a "Special Justice" (what the hell is that?) to a psychiatric ward another judge eventually "dismissed the petition for involuntary commitment on the grounds that the petition 'is so devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case or controversy.'”

No harm, no foul?

I was just gonna say the same, that Facebook in particular is a huge privacy-threat that so many people are completely flippant about risking. That and Gmail.

 

[Ziltoid]

I just googles The Anarchist Cookbook, for the lulz.

 

[Eric Perry]

I just googles The Anarchist Cookbook, for the lulz.

 

[guy n. cognito]

I was just gonna say the same, that Facebook in particular is a huge privacy-threat that so many people are completely flippant about risking. That and Gmail.

Posting on Facebook is about as private as screaming your secrets to a room full of friends, acquaintances and complete strangers.

 

[guy n. cognito]

Before some of you delve off the deep end of black helicopters and drones, go read the Wire article again. They've updated it with the other shoe, if you will............

 

[Relic]

I'm one of those "annoying civil libertarians" and you wonder why?

 

[sevenorchids]

Read again everyone, and pay no attention to the picture (which has nothing to do with the actual visit from the police).

What do you want the police to do? Ignore the tip from the company that provided it?

This has nothing to do with the NSA or the CIA or anything like that. Simply a case of a terminated employee that did some interesting searching on a work computer that aroused suspicions and was reported to the police.

It's crap journalism like this that is the real problem.

 

[guy n. cognito]

Read again everyone, and pay no attention to the picture (which has nothing to do with the actual visit from the police).

What do you want the police to do? Ignore the tip from the company that provided it?

This has nothing to do with the NSA or the CIA or anything like that. Simply a case of a terminated employee that did some interesting searching on a work computer that aroused suspicions and was reported to the police.

It's crap journalism like this that is the real problem.

The story has been updated. This afternoon, the story led you to believe that these people were just searching these things in the comfort of their home, when the black van brigade showed up and harrassed them. In the update, we see the much more realistic (and much less dramatic) version.......Someone at this guy's former workplace....from which he was recently fired.....reported his suspicious computer searches to police.

Crap journalism is right....but hey......people buy it.

 

[guy n. cognito]

Any reputable news agencies carrying this story?

I'm not inclined to quote myself, but I would suggest that, the next time you see a story like this carried on one of these "alternative" news sources, that you ask yourself this question before believing it.

 

[RattnR0ll]

Posting on Facebook is about as private as screaming your secrets to a room full of friends, acquaintances and complete strangers.

Yeah, that's my point.

 

[hbarcat]

The story has been updated. This afternoon, the story led you to believe that these people were just searching these things in the comfort of their home, when the black van brigade showed up and harrassed them. In the update, we see the much more realistic (and much less dramatic) version.......Someone at this guy's former workplace....from which he was recently fired.....reported his suspicious computer searches to police.

I don't see how that makes it okay. Someone with a grudge against you can go to the government and tell them that you are doing something "suspicious" and all of a sudden the Feds are trying to connect every dot whether they should be connected or not.

The government was condemned for not doing its job to "connect the dots" and stop the 9/11 attacks from happening. Since then, its done everything it can to spy on anyone suspicious and to investigate to the fullest extent of its new found power granted to it by the people so they could feel more secure.

I, for one, am not comfortable with this.

 

[ShredderMaximus]

I don't see how that makes it okay. Someone with a grudge against you can go to the government and tell them that you are doing something "suspicious" and all of a sudden the Feds are trying to connect every dot whether they should be connected or not.

The government was condemned for not doing its job to "connect the dots" and stop the 9/11 attacks from happening. Since then, its done everything it can to spy on anyone suspicious and to investigate to the fullest extent of its new found power granted to it by the people so they could feel more secure.

I, for one, am not comfortable with this.

I can't say I agree. There's invasion of privacy, and then there's acting on a report placed by a concerned citizen. I place the blame on the media for spreading the fear mongering nonsense that created this paranoid culture we live in, rather than the law for fulfilling their obligation to the people.