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All Your Private Data Are Belong To Obama
When it comes to spying, eavesdropping on its citizens as well as the complete invasion of American privacy, the first thing that comes to mind is the Patriot ACT and Dubya. And with good reason: because while the rest of the world may "hate us for our freedoms", they certainly love us for the fact that the NSA usually can autocomplete sentences before they are written in any electronic medium (recall: NSA Whistleblower Speaks Live: "The Government Is Lying To You"). However, as it turns out that the first thing that should be coming to mind is none other than the current administration and Barack Obama. Here are the facts: as the ACLU reveals using documents released by the Justice Department following months of litigation, "federal law enforcement agencies are increasingly monitoring Americans’ electronic communications, and doing so without warrants, sufficient oversight, or meaningful accountability." How "increasingly"? Look at the chart below and decide.
From the ACLU: Between 20909 and 2011 "the number of people whose telephones were the subject of pen register and trap and trace surveillance more than tripled. In fact, more people were subjected to pen register and trap and trace surveillance in the past two years than in the entire previous decade."
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
This is how Uncle Sam spies on you:
Pen register and trap and trace devices are powerfully invasive surveillance tools that were, twenty years ago, physical devices that attached to telephone lines in order to covertly record the incoming and outgoing numbers dialed. Today, no special equipment is required to record this information, as interception capabilities are built into phone companies’ call-routing hardware.
Pen register and trap and trace devices now generally refer to the surveillance of information about—rather than the contents of—communications. Pen registers capture outgoing data, while trap and trace devices capture incoming data. This still includes the phone numbers of incoming and outgoing telephone calls and the time, date, and length of those calls. But the government now also uses this authority to intercept the “to” and “from” addresses of email messages, records about instant message conversations, non-content data associated with social networking identities, and at least some information about the websites that you visit (it isn't entirely clear where the government draws the line between the content of a communication and information about a communication when it comes to the addresses of websites).
This is how Uncle Sam has been spying on your more in the past three years than ever before:
Electronic Surveillance Is Sharply on the Rise
The reports that we received document an enormous increase in the Justice Department’s use of pen register and trap and trace surveillance. As the chart below shows, between 2009 and 2011 the combined number of original orders for pen registers and trap and trace devices used to spy on phones increased by 60%, from 23,535 in 2009 to 37,616 in 2011.
During the past two years, there has also been an increase in the number of pen register and trap and trace orders targeting email and network communications data. While this type of Internet surveillance tool remains relatively rare, its use is increasing exponentially. The number of authorizations the Justice Department received to use these devices on individuals’ email and network data increased 361% between 2009 and 2011.
The sharp increase in the use of pen register and trap and trace orders is the latest example of the skyrocketing spying on Americans’ electronic communications. Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that cellphone carriers received 1.3 million demands for subscriber information in 2011 alone. And an ACLU public records project revealed that police departments around the country large and small engage in cell phone location tracking.
Remember this:
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
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I direct the Chief Technology Officer, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Administrator of General Services, to coordinate the development by appropriate executive departments and agencies, within 120 days, of recommendations for an Open Government Directive, to be issued by the Director of OMB, that instructs executive departments and agencies to take specific actions implementing the principles set forth in this memorandum. The independent agencies should comply with the Open Government Directive.
Barack Obama
Who knew that he was really telling the CTO to coordinate on the transparency and opepness of your emails.
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Yes I did and that's good to hear;)
They were probably doing audio before you were even thinking about it.
Not really, it can be activated to "turn on" remotely, (transmitting all noise about the speaker, complete with gps data) without you ever knowing. Imagine that?
LONG, {Carrier Pigeons} bitchez/
ROFL
Who knew Mike Tyson was such a visionary?
When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Mike Tyson
And he was hilarious on the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen.
At some point, what better way to expeditiously destroy an opponent than to upload something like child porn onto your opponents hard drive?
Now you are thinking like they do.
Shit, the X-Files had this in a story line 15 years ago.
That is how they operate. Well, those who run the puppets. Gain leverage, then the buyoff price is much lower.
That is why half the figureheads are crackhead boytouchers.
They are selected because they have weaknesses which are taboo.
pods
"They are selected because they have weaknesses which are taboo."
A fact that is not widely known and very much underappreciated. It's a meme that deserves a lot more discussion and mention, for example, on sites like this one.
I was going to post something pithy at this point -- but I think now I won't.
'public participation, and collaboration'
Creepy stuff.....
collaBORGation
What company, corporation, or nation would want to risk their sensitive business information and data by doing business in Amurrika's high-tech police state?
At the bottom of each of my personal e-mails I leave this little note for the globalist traitors (former Americans) at the alphabet soup spy agencies.
"Any NSA, government employee or contractor reading this e-mail must decide which side of history he or she wishes to be on. Do you want your ancestors to know that when tyranny came to America you were part of it?! I think not! Please reconsider what you are doing. Please read the Bill of Rights and understand that what you are doing is unconstitutional, illegal and treasonous! Tuco"Try something short and to the point:
"And who is reading YOUR e-mail?"
LOL! Good comment! Both you guys are "SMART".
Nice Tuco;) Although if I were Tuco, I'd add this.
So thats why the free cell phones...
Yeah, so they know who the sheeple are that they can skip tracking.
The most robust computer system known to man could not possibly decipher what is being said on those phones nor any human that dared try. Red herring.
Perhaps not all of it. Yet.
UFXPB LFLYZ NZUYR
fuu I caught up with Slewie last night. He's doing just fine. " no banishment". Thanks for the mind fuc.
Glad he is doing well. His account here shows access denied which tends to indicate the account is closed, but wtf do I know?
http://www.zerohedge.com/users/slewie-pi-rat
He posted on a Z/H thread last night, under "screen name" Slewie the Pirate. WTF do I know either? I was going to leave him an Email, but the China session was still open.
I didn't want 1.4billion Emails in my junk box, so as to crash Yahoos servers!
Huh, can't find it. Oh well, next time you see him give him a knuckle sandwich for me, hold the knuckles.
I left a comment for him. I'll do a search of my posts. Slewie may well be " Knuckles". Lot's of similarities.
I tried to do a screen shot, but had too many windows loaded. I am certain it was him! It was between 1&3 P.S.T. (U.S.).
Now you have me on the " Hamster Wheel"? I'll find it!
I read your reply to Slewie last night but Slewie wasn't on that thread. Looked like you were responding to Knuckles.
Alas, he may have been Corizined.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/jpm-explains-novel-feature-todays-fed-liqu...
You were replying to an almost year old post.
Tell him Skateboarder says he is a gentleman and a scholar lol.
I've missed him too.
LOL! Email a few dozen lines of that once a week and see what happens.
Umm no. =)
I am begining to believe that many of the laws purported to be about terrorism are actually about capital controls.
Why would the post office limit gold being shipped overseas?....just a useless commodity...right?
Why the strip search of passengers? I do not have much evidence here...just a hunch. But what is obvious is that the risk of terrorism is relatively low, the risk of currency collapse is relatively high. No politician can be seen demanding capital controls but every one of them are on board with combating terrorism.
So laws get passed that no one has read and then the bureaucrats go to work and a few posts in the Federal Register later....bang...we have restrictions on what we 'free' Americans can and cannot do with 'our' money and wealth.
hey! even after we have spread the wealth around some of it is still 'ours' ....right?
Hit it on the head, 100%. I had a poker buddy on his way back from Vegas with $47K on him (this guy plays on TV). On his way back to Ohio, he got accosted by TSA agents in a Detroit airport, detained/questioned for 6 hours, and his money confiscated (he would get it back after 6 months when they FINALLY concluded he wasn't a drug dealer).
As an online poker player, this was alot of my friends' theory on why Holder's (Wall St cow towing) DOJ shut down online poker. Not because they wanted to "stop banking fraud", "ponzi schemes", or "problem gambling"....it was because the offshore casinos were receiving and paying out US citizens' money, tax free.....as well as providing this tax free competition against casinos. You could also transfer money between each other, with no tracing or fees or tax, INTRACOUNTRY. This obviously pisses off the middle men of the world.
The casinos, who with the big banks constructed the UEIGA through lobbying (bribing) legislators, knew that after they would ban transactions with the offshore companies....they could set up their OWN sites when the demand for online gaming would reset the legislative playing field.
In order for the casinos (already in debt with the banks) to fund these new venutres, they would have to take on more debt (from the banks).
Remember, folks.....if you chase a flush draw online, or put the Jets in a teaser.....then the terrorists have won.
That's why you drive to Vegas dawg.
A real flaw comes in thinking that any currency which may come to be in your possession actually *belongs* to you. It doesn't. It belongs to the Fed--it even has their name printed right on it.
That people don't want to accept this is suggestive of one of the big problems with fiat currency.
It's hard to escape, naturally, but if you really want to be FREE, just divest from the dollar. The dollar is by far the most effective means of population control that's ever existed.
I agree that a lot a lot of this is to soften up the Sheeples for the inevitiable
capital controls.The billion rounds of hollowpoint will be the backup.
Thankfully, I can walk out my front door and be in Nassau in around an hour.
Always gased up ,and ready to go.Wasn't even a boy scout.
Surveill this Mutha Fucka!
Oh look, the cum drenched, asshole sucking squid save the market again. Can't believe they would do such a thing, esp on friday. I'm convinced all the institutions have the men in black with shotguns at the back door just daring someone to push the sell button. It's gona be a beauty when it happens.
Anything to retain their grip. A quick cross examination of overall opinions on the net quickly explain NDAA, gazillions of bullets etc. Amazing how powerful our opinions are when they're actually in print and not just spoken.
DIE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!
I guarantee that was good for a new prison and 500 temporary jobs.
This isn't as bad as it looks. If you hold a clearance in the U.S. you are subject to monitoring at any time. That's not a bad thing. If you hold a clearance you are walking around with information that could harm Americans. As your employer the government reserves the right to snoop on your activities. Heck, even customer service representatives are snooped on to see that they're treating the customer nicely. This doesn't excuse unwarranted wiretaps but it may explain growth in the number of people subject to eavesdropping.
Love that you gys throw in a timeless internet joke like this. Part of that little something extra that puts you over the top.
"All Your Private Data Are Belong To Obama"
http://www.lolcats.com/images/u/10/19/lolcatsdotcoml19dzbkf0vkhbpzz.jpg
(know your meme;)
If you hold a clearance in the U.S. you are subject to monitoring at any time.
A sad way to live.
@NMDB - you meant steel not steal
The "steal" has not been melted yet.
Obama can monitor what comes out my butt cheeks. He probably does it with his boyfriend all the time. They get a rise on key words.
The surveillance industry, according to a colleague of mine, is a $3 billion-a-year industry.
Most of it, from government contracts. Or, multinational corporates who have GDPs the size of small countries.
There is no way they DON'T try to hold on to that tit as much as possible.
If I could bet on stocks that would do well, it would be for companies that deal in surveillance, military, and guns.
Why? Because they get guarunteed revenue from our tax dollars. #recessionproof
In the good old days of wiretapping you would at least have an idea that you were being bugged by weird noises on the line. Now there is none of that. It is just understood that everyone may be targeted.
The creepy thing is that either people don't know or worse, don't care.
My guess is that most would care a lot, if they knew. But the MSM don't dare touch the subject, and the fringe media lack reach and credibility.
And so the crisis deepens by the day. Until the country falls apart that is.
Yes, this is just a modern day manifestation of Bentham's Panopticon. Put everyone under observation that is invisible, or at least make it known that you could be under observation, and thus compel us to be compliant sheeple.
Baaaa, baaaa, we gots to give up our liberty to make sure we's safe frim terrorists...
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Remember folks, they still must physically send someone down that long, straight, dusty country driveway in order to try to come get you.........
. . . and the hounds seem to know who's invited.
Assuming you survive our freedom fighter drone attack!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/
Tuco
And people still claim the Feds didn't learn anything from R uby or Wa co
Yes, pigs n' spooks, please come down my long drive...
Not necessarily. The Armed Forces (and I include in this category the US Militarised Police forces) have access to semiautonomous aircraft - drones to you - that have shown significant capability in "getting" those the Establishment wants removed, that's assuming "they" are not interested in interrogating you.
For "retreival" they'd probably go for helicopter. Expensive, hell yes, but since YOU are paying for it those in power couldn't really give a stuff.
again, again, and again... God bless You,
Julian Assange!
Ps. Will the presidential debates tip-toe about/thru homeland security and Obi's complete disregard for the constitution and the bill of rights? Side-step the issue is the question for the MSM!
note: think about the uk saying they have authority too storm the Ecuador embassy and physically take Assange... think about that for awhile- then think about the world sovereign's throughout [?ME?][?] that say ... Fuck-You, too Freedom, if it's a one-way street via fascism[!!!]... assange has just been confirmed [last week] as a enemy combatant of the us of amerika by the military[MIC]- that's right... in the same category as al Qaeda,...
again, God Bless You... Julian Assange!!!
earleflorida :-))
Of course the Throne owns all my personal informaton. We are but loyal servants in the United States.
You know they're mostly surveilling the immigrant, alien, and anchor baby population-(which they increased as a matter of public policy in response to our Muslim war) America has a less than flat learning curve when it comes to immigration, aside from the terrorist threat there's the economic threat (and cost, unfunded liabilites increased 100T since the 1965 INA) and the political threat (immigrants tend to vote Socialist) as well as the permanent environmental hatibat loss for animals and citizens.
Contrary to popular economic belief, the pie never increases in size, the earth is the same size it was 4 billion years ago.
The only ecopnomic pie that increases in size is the US economic debt pie.
I'd much rather have a million or 2 or 3 additional unknown foreigners to compete with every year forever, and a police state than have sovereignty, stability and predictability.
"My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government."
They are being more open. They gave you those statistics.
Yah and bush is the cause of all this too....
"All Your Private Data Are Belong To Obama."
Looks like Obama wrote the title of this story himself!
Tuco
He writ it his own self - dig? He writ it hisself.
Dimitri Khalezov
This actually is the fault of Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell, as well as Jimmy McNulty. But The Wire was totally worth it.
50,000 on the watch list? In my humble opinion, I would have thought the number far larger considering most of my friends would be on that list. When one considers that 46 million americans are on welfare (I would suspect that at least 1/3 of that group would sell out the united states, or be involved in "bad shit", such that I would expect the watch list to be in the 20 - 30 million range). BHO would be numero uno on my list, followed by most of his staff.
How many friends do you have? ;)
If you just make up all the numbers, you're going to get a skewed comparison.
But if it's way too hard to try to find any of this information, you sorta defeat your own credibility.
Dont Drone me bro!
While you are at it put in a good word for all your neighbors on all sides, cuz I hear the accuracy of those drone things is nay good at all.
One of the better scenes in the most recent Bourne movie was how the protagonist battled the drone (and those controlling it...)
Don't worry, the next administration will correct this. Mitt Romney will never spy on Americans.
Dear GoBama,
I'll be buying paper in my boxers all weekend.
Sincerely,
Illogical Spock
"From the ACLU: Between 2009 and 2011 "the number of people whose telephones were the subject of pen register and trap and trace surveillance more than tripled. In fact, more people were subjected to pen register and trap and trace surveillance in the past two years than in the entire previous decade."
Wait, does this mean it's NOT all Bush's fault? LOL.
It's still his fault because he was hired on as a consultant after he left government.
He's really into this shit, Bush is.
Not that I really care, but who for?
In any case, my post was pure sarcasm, as clearly there's a leadership gap - a responsibility problem - a vacuum - a dearth - that both parties have been horrid at filling, and are I think basically incapable of filling. The idiot 'Rats continue to chant like Krishnas at the airport, 'it's Bush's fault' when clearly it's not all Bush and the idiot Repubbie's faults. We need a good centrist, sound money 3rd party, but we'll need to change laws, and rules (to allow them to debate, for instance) in order to make them legitimate threats to power someday. It's time to join the battle!
Why would you assume this is even a BAD THING?
Maybe they're all banksters being bugged for a giant sting operation that's going to end financial fraud forever. Maybe Holder's so busy with this deep-cover operation he hasn't been able to do anything about Fast and Furious.
If the ACLU is pointing it out, it's just cover for some kind of liberal agenda, anyway. Heh.
obama is bush in dark skin....one and the same creep - fascist totalitarian war mongering murderers with obama being an indonesian citizen....
Thank gawd things will be different when Romney is Prez.
:)
I post on ZH in the nude...
It really creeps Janet out.
Hey MDB, did Barry explain to you how building 7 came down or was it from the media matters website?
I was all set to say WTF does OBAMA have to do with it? As if Mittens would be less likely to listen to every word we say or write. And I do still stand by that sentiment, I honestly believe he would in fact simply misuse the data nets faster and for more evil purposes such as sharing corporate secrets with crony friends and the secret distribution of intellectual property to his "friends." Something I doubt the left would do, at least as much or for the same motives.
But then, while researching the subject in order to make a cogent post I looked up the NSA data center being built in Utah, I have meant to learn more about it for some time but never seem to find the time. I found this article and I am just blown away by what I read, it is the best I have seen on the subject by far:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/
Do keep in mind though that this is basically an NSA black op, or dark gray op, so there is going to be some disinformation out there, maybe a lot of it. I had known this facility would pose significant threat of possible misuse, but the more I read the more I realized that it cannot do otherwise. It documents the actual server capacity which is in the millions of exobites, yottabytes... "A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude..."
And I think that is a gross under estimation of the real capacity. This really would be akin to Skynet. This machinery would be fast enough to decrypt financial transactions before you finish typing a word. It would be far faster than the algos currently looting Wall Street. Something that fast can finish your sentence for you, or a billion transactions which could be intercepted and altered. This is not about awareness, it is about control.
Please try this link instead... http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
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The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)fuck the government
Clicked that link accidentally during the boating accident.