NSA building massive database of phone records

[lareau]

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05 ... on=edition

All in the name of security!

[Zanchief]

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[Thon]

doesnt that piss off even you people that can't suck bush's dick hard enough?

[mofish]

Hey why shouldnt the government be able to access everything Ive said over a telephone in my life with one keystroke? They are just lookin out for me ya know.


Learn2waronterror

[Eziekial]

[quote="Thon"]doesnt that piss off even you people that can't suck bush's dick hard enough?[/quote]

You think Bush is the only one responsible? Or that no democrates knew this was going on?

[Captain Insano]

the dems and reps are both backing this kind of thing. The government only wants a few things...More taxes, more power and more control. Never forget that.

[Harrison]

doesnt that piss off even you people that can't suck bush's dick hard enough?

You're an idiot.

That hardly needs to be explained however. Because we all know Bush is totally pushing this himself 100%...

Politicians don't give a fuck about you, not just "the debil" president that's out to get your hippy ass.

Do you even bother to think before you move those fingers over the keyboard?

[Zanchief]

All politicians are evil, so I might as well vote for one that I know is gonna rape me instead of one that probably will because of his profession.

Seems logical to me.

[dammuzis]

but if your doing nothing wrong why not

/stupid off

once again proof that america is just one more step to fascism

[Thon]

it isn't soley 100% evil republicans responsible, but...

considering that the republicans control: the presidency...the house...the senate...and now the supreme court

you're fucked up retarded if you think that the dems are behind this.

[Harrison]

Behind it, not likely...

Party to it, yes...

[Gidan]

If you have nothing to hide, why do you care?

[Lyion]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/11/ ... topstories

[lareau]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/11/nsa.phonerecords/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

I'm confused why you posed the exact same link? Pressed the submit button too soon?

[Gaazy]

im not doing anything illegal, who fucking cares

[KILL]

im not doing anything illegal, who fucking cares

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

[Drem]

im not doing anything illegal, who fucking cares

haha just like i never do anything illegal. shut up eric

[Markarado]

Probably nothing illegal that the Federal Government would be interested in though.

[Drem]

Fair enough.

[Lyion]

I had a long post and quote, but the Gods of Cyberspace decided to sieze it from me.

On one hand I don't mind them doing phone checks for patterns, if it solely relates to Al Qaeda.

On the other, I for the life of me, can't figure out how mining millions of phone records has anything to do with the war on terror.

Although this is completely anonymous and there is no listening. The point of this is to learn calling patterns, with no tapping. But why?

[Menlaan]

Given the secrecy around all of this, I don't think we can say what they are and aren't doing. What we know now is that they are maintaining a massive database of every call placed by certain phone companies since 9/11. We also know that they are listening into phone conversations of suspected individuals. Who can say that there isn't a link between them?

I think all of this is quite creepy.

Menlaan

[ClakarEQ]

I'm unclear on how they can extrapulate(sp) truely usefull data from the patterns. They have to have "something" first, a name of a terriorts, a number of a terrorist, etc. If they have that "something" first, why are they "sweeping" us all into that bucket.

The feds think all terriots are idiots when unfortunatly most of the US populace is the idiot.

This is complete BS regardless of dems / reps, it is BS 100%.

For those that think WTF is the big deal, don't do bad shit and you don't have to worry. Think about any privacy right you have and I'll put that in your face. Why not a camera in your car that you can't modify just to determine if you're speeding. Why not a recorder in your living room that you can't turn off to make sure you don't do drugs or drink too much. Yeah those are extremes but only extreme now. When the feds assimilate the majority to think "whats the big deal" and recording calls is the norm, what then, camera's in your car? When does it stop?

I'd like to see one usefull arrest they've made that had to do with terrorism since the data capture began. Until then all you "give up my rights for freedom" shits can kiss my ass.

And if you didn't know, terrorist ONLY use Qwuest(sp) ROFL.

A wise man once wrote:
"Those who choose to sacrifice Freedom in order to gain Security shall not have, nor do they deserve, either one"

I live by that and if you're a US citizen so should you!

EDIT
I should have clarified, arrest AND conviction

[Martrae]

It's just another big waste of taxpayer money.

[Arlos]

That wise man was Benjamin Franklin.

Here's another quote regarding this kind of issue, which reflects the lessons learned from Nazi Germany:

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.


-Arlos

[ClakarEQ]

This whole thing has me a bit fired up.

I hope all you NRA backers, and smokers, and recreational drug users, etc all take close watch of this. This is not home of the free, my government completely disgusts me

For whatever it's worth, and the guy could have been lieing but here is a story for you.
I used to work for a small consultant company, the owner/boss had a prior life when he was young. He worked at the NSA as a civilian working on some of the "star wars" BS from the Reagon era. Now the star wars that he worked on were not "star" at all, it was essentially a system like what you see on modern military ships, but a bigger scale. Most navel, if not all have a turret of sorts that can shoot down "many / most" airborne launched projectiles, they are 100% computer driving. This guy worked on some of the code for the grand-daddy of this, it was meant to be used all over the coast lines but with a MUCH greater scale / distance, etc. bla bla
To my point:
He told me a story once that I just couldn't believe being a kid myself (20ish). Saying you know the NSA records and catalogs every outbound communication from this country, every phone call, every e-mail, every fax, EVERYTHING. I'm like sure old man, you're nuts.

In retro spec I'm not sure how nuts he was. I also don't know that I can trust a government that says shit like this. Whose to say this shit hasn't been going on since the technology was available? There is no reason to think this hasn't been going on for decades, not one reason.