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NSA snooping

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Wtf.

 

Hope they dont put me on the index koz this is fucking insane. Im not American citizen so they can spy the fuck out of me fuck this shit. Hope China keeps cyberfucking you NSA because youre looking at the wrong place.

 

Theyre probably reading this too so fuck you again. You were too fucking busy stalking facebook while they stole billions and decades worth of your millitary R&D, you dumb fucks wasting more tax money on security that could goto much needed welfare esp medical, given how broken it is.

 

I can bet theyre probably spying the shit out of ordinary American citizens too, too slippery a slop not to fall. More millitary control over civilians. Must be good for stats eh.. " President we suck at holding back state sponsored hackers, but heres a list on anti-war trolls"

 

 

Freedom of speech my ass.

Edited by Shahenshah

The Government + Supporters claim its "All in the name of protection". Another scandal to tarnish the current President. What are we up to now, 4? Benghazi, IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups, AP Journalist surveillance/hacking, and now NSA spying on us.

 

While I'll give Obama the benefit of the doubt (however unlikely) it is possible he didn't actually know what was happening. But since he is our President, isn't his job to know whats going on here?

 

I have a dream, that one day, my government will stop trying to take away and infringe upon my Constitutional Rights.

The Government + Supporters claim its "All in the name of protection". Another scandal to tarnish the current President. What are we up to now, 4? Benghazi, IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups, AP Journalist surveillance/hacking, and now NSA spying on us.

 

While I'll give Obama the benefit of the doubt (however unlikely) it is possible he didn't actually know what was happening. But since he is our President, isn't his job to know whats going on here?

 

I have a dream, that one day, my government will stop trying to take away and infringe upon my Constitutional Rights.

 

It's not all that alarming to me; gov is just keeping up with the technological times. There's no need for the low tech, human spy when you can just plug into anyone's phone or computer. We even had a joke in a class a few years back, that even alone God and the gov know what you're doing haha.

 

It's likely Obama didn't sign off on it; they've long had the capability to do so. And I agree, hackers and foreign entities are likely  spying the U.S like it never went out of style.

 

Aye, but I'm still thankful for the ones they haven't messed with yet.

Heard about that guy on the radio last night. A lot of people are debating whether he is a hero or a traitor. Its nice someone finally spoke up about the severity of Government Surveillance. Good to know at least someone in our Intelligence Community has a conscience.

  • 3 weeks later...

I've been reassured several times but the fine folk on my television screen that they the only information they take is the actual phone numbers, and then see if you've been communicating with known terrorist or other seriously bad people, then they can get a court order to actually start monitoring you. So chances are if you don't make phone calls to the Middle East, you have nothing at all to worry about. Assuming all this is true and the checks and balances are maintained.

I've been reassured several times but the fine folk on my television screen that they the only information they take is the actual phone numbers, and then see if you've been communicating with known terrorist or other seriously bad people, then they can get a court order to actually start monitoring you. So chances are if you don't make phone calls to the Middle East, you have nothing at all to worry about. Assuming all this is true and the checks and balances are maintained.

Do you really believe that?

I'm just going to say, that there's nothing new under the sun.

 

Governments have always used a network of informants/spies/agents under various names to gather information on each other and sometimes their own citizens. In the 21st century, these conventional methods are being replaced by electronic systems adapted to the Information Age, by nature these methods are a lot more effective and efficient than informants ever were. Welcome to the future!

 

Is this a good thing? Not really.

Is it new/shocking? Lol, no

 

If anything, I'm surprised how a seemingly ridiculously naive person like Snowden could ever work for the CIA/NSA.

 

I've been reassured several times but the fine folk on my television screen that they the only information they take is the actual phone numbers, and then see if you've been communicating with known terrorist or other seriously bad people, then they can get a court order to actually start monitoring you. So chances are if you don't make phone calls to the Middle East, you have nothing at all to worry about. Assuming all this is true and the checks and balances are maintained.

Do you really believe that?

 

 

I don't believe it with certainty, and I wouldn't put it pass them, but I doubt their capacity to actually record, save and shift through everything we say.. and without word getting out that such a program exists.

 

It just seems more likely to me that, at most, they search for key words, or key numbers, and only look at what might be relevant. Not because they wouldn't like to read everything in the world, but who has time for that?

 

Still, the potential for abuse of this technology is disturbing and I think the criticism of it is good.

 

 

I've been reassured several times but the fine folk on my television screen that they the only information they take is the actual phone numbers, and then see if you've been communicating with known terrorist or other seriously bad people, then they can get a court order to actually start monitoring you. So chances are if you don't make phone calls to the Middle East, you have nothing at all to worry about. Assuming all this is true and the checks and balances are maintained.

Do you really believe that?

 

 

I don't believe it with certainty, and I wouldn't put it pass them, but I doubt their capacity to actually record, save and shift through everything we say.. and without word getting out that such a program exists.

 

It just seems more likely to me that, at most, they search for key words, or key numbers, and only look at what might be relevant. Not because they wouldn't like to read everything in the world, but who has time for that?

 

Still, the potential for abuse of this technology is disturbing and I think the criticism of it is good.

 

I'm pretty sure they save the data.

 

They have the tech/hardware to do so.

 

They probably don't go through everything.

 

But they can keep it as a sort of backlog to go back ten years and use something you said then to fuck your life over, even if it wasn't relevant

Maybe, Samus.

It's just, I trust the American people to cause an uproar, even revolt, if the government goes too far.. and I trust big business and the government don't want a bloody revolution, they want a peaceful populace that produces, buys and sells goods.

Things change though, who knows?

  • 2 weeks later...

The problem is much bigger then this. America is changing not for the better. Third world people flood America and middle class is changed to second class. 

 

This snooping is crazy. One NSA guy said "It is to cheap not to do this" in regards to harvesting all out meta data. Hmmm how much is to cheap like 10 million? This is why we are falling behind. It is not that we need smart people from india to get the best SAT score no we can do that also. We need to provide for our own people first not some crazy idea of what America should be in the still minority. 

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