Posted on 06/03/2005 10:00:08 AM PDT by CHARLITE
That's like saying "the cops can come in my house anytime they want. I have nothing to hide."
Seems we fought a few wars over that imbecilic attitude.
This seems a bit paranoid to me. The government can listen in on people's internet activity without help from google, if they choose, but there is such a flood of information on the net it's of doubtful use unless they have some other reason to want to nail someone.
Useful to whom?
Bis business is always smarter then the average person who must be stupid.
Sarcasm
"The government can listen in on people's internet activity without help from google, if they choose"
Really? How can they do that?
Sure, they can go to the ISP of the person and track their online activity but that isn't what you are referring to, is it?
Wanna see something scary, but still cool. Check out the WayBack machine.
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
It archives websites and lets you jump back to a point in time. Websites like this one!!!!
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.freerepublic.com/
Actually, they even have all versions of your about page:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.freerepublic.com/~gmason/
I had a little fun back then commenting on a thread that had not been commented on in years. You should have seen the hornets nest that turned up. Freepers were Freep mailing Freepers and the next thing you know I was surrounded by Freeper Ferrets. ;)
Thanks fot the url.
That was great! Thanks. I think. ;)
Zbigniew Brzezinski Protegé of David Rockefeller, co-founder of The Trilateral Commission, and NSA to Jimmy Carter, from his 1971 book Between Two Ages. (Brzezinski has been adviser to no less than five presidents)
"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. [...] [T]he capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behavior of the citizen in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
Zbigniew Brzezinski = POS
There were stories that NSA computers were keeping track of anybody who used certain words over the net during the clinton years, and the FBI set up some big computers too. I don't know how much of it was true (how would anyone know?) but there was plausibility.
This also covers most phone conversations because of the use of wireless relays.
Try doing a google search of "NSA eavesdropping."
Zbigniew Brzezinski = POS.
That may be true but I remember a few years ago he was trumpeting one of his books and he went on and on about how the US will have to get into the Trash-can-istan areas and become a key strategic player there before too long.
Seems his predictions were right on the money....
Google "Echelon"...that's NSA's snoop stuff......some claim it can tell when your pop-tarts are done in your toaster oven.
FBI's "Carnivore" pooter sniffing program had a name change to a soft and fuxzzy title like DSC2000 or something like that....
All this data collection isn't worth a hill of beans unless you have the eyeball power to analyze it.
A new feature called "blackmail"
"bmail" LOL
damn, that's nifty. nowhere near complete, but nifty.
Exactly. If your name is Al Capone, they might use this stuff to nail you, but there's no way they are going to go after Joe Citizen because he visited some suspect web site.
Back in the clinton days, many of us used to play games, sending emails or posting messages that used the list of forbidden words which Carnivore was supposed to be set to pick up.
Good God!! How many YB (yottabytes) are their servers???
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