How Big Brother Is Watching YOU..............

[cthrumatrix]

What Price Freedom?
How Big Brother Is Watching, Listening and Misusing Information About You
By TERESA HAMPTON & DOUG THOMPSON
Jun 8, 2004, 08:19



You’re on your way to work in the morning and place a call on your wireless phone. As your call is relayed by the wireless tower, it is also relayed by another series of towers to a microwave antenna on top of Mount Weather between Leesburg and Winchester, Virginia and then beamed to another antenna on top of an office building in Arlington where it is recorded on a computer hard drive.

The computer also records you phone digital serial number, which is used to identify you through your wireless company phone bill that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency already has on record as part of your permanent file.

A series of sophisticated computer programs listens to your phone conversation and looks for “keywords” that suggest suspicious activity. If it picks up those words, an investigative file is opened and sent to the Department of Homeland Security.

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http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_4656.shtml

Good to see our taxes at work.

[soothsayer]

1. maybe every caller should use those keywords in every conversation

just to bog the system down to the point of uselessness

[gandalf]

2. I feel a lot safer after I read this

And I'm glad that the NSA makes us safe here in Germany, too. Because some weeks ago I read that Islamic terrorists are a big threat for Germany, too.

And I have nothing to hide.

(That's why I try to convince everyone to use PGP)

[FreakinDJ]

3. Goggle search ECHELON

The system is almost world wide

[izzie]

5. You are most likely on a list some place already.

What a way to govern, with fear. What is wrong with Americans?

[FreakinDJ]

9. I am sure they have a SPECIAL File for DU

and I am sure they come on here with articals that have some nasty tracking cookies.

That is why every thing is blocked and I closed all the excess ports in my router.

It will at least make them work a little harder

[gandalf]

8. + carnivore nt

[keithyboy]

4. All the "intel" in the world will not make anyone safer until people learn

to have respect and concern for each other and to do unto others as they would have them do unto themselves. It's just that simple. I sure don't have to talk electronically to organize a way to kill people. If a nation can launch a missile from hundreds of miles away and blow up anything in another country, ECHELON is useless.

[Cannikin]

6. Well, as long as the Patriot Act isn't being abused....

I was being sarcastic.

[EdGy]

7. all the more reason to NOT use cell phones.

nt