WTF is up with facebook?

[rug]

[sharp_stick]

1. I like it n/t

[louis-t]

2. funny!

[mike_c]

3. well done!

on edit: I stole it and shared it on Facebook, LOL.

[madrchsod]

4. cool....

[KittyWampus]

5. made me laugh

[leftstreet]

6. LOL

[CatWoman]

7. LOL!!

STEALING!!!

*yoink*

[Laelth]

8. Excellent. k&r n/t

-Laelth

[southerncrone]

9. LOL

[dipsydoodle]

10. Excellent

.

[Bryn]

11. ROFL

Had to share on facebook. Ha! It's very funny!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

12. The amusing part is how on earth there'd be enough in the CIA to cover even 1% of us.

314,000,000 Americans. One percent - over 3,000,000. How many CIA personnel? And how much time devoted to 1%? And what about the actual function of this program? Is that a forgotten bi-product?

[A Simple Game]

18. You don't really think there is someone at the NSA wearing headphones listening in, do you?

They use computers and check for key words and phrases. And yes I believe they probably have the capacity to listen to and or read all of our communications. It would only add milliseconds to the transfer times. Hear or read a key word or phrase and the communication is kicked out for further scrutiny.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

21. To 314,000,000 of us? Even if to just those over 15, we're talking upwards of 175,000,000.

This is such a waste of time that I'm going nuts thinking about the waste.

Write your congressman. Call your Senator. Do what you want to do. But please don't suck all of the air out of some very important legislation that's being allowed to die because America has a brand new bone to pick.

[Half-Century Man]

22. Then In every conversation, post, tweet,or facebook entry..

use the word bomb at least three times. Bury the system.

[delrem]

19. software and algorithms, plus permanent storage w. immediate retrieval.

It isn't just facebook, google, microsoft, etc., it's *everything*.

Problem is secret courts, secret interpretations of laws, blanket authorizations.

Suppose some real bad actors get in power, some real bad shit goes down and people start to organize to protest, form a new political party, put their money into opposition, decide on plans of action, etc. Easy to cherrypick and deal with the leaders (discredit, incarcerate, etc) when their entire lives are in storage. Cherrypick their associates. Use that info to do some deep searches in the mass storage archives. Nip it in the bud. Put the freeze on, everyone looking backward, nobody trusting a soul.

Couple this with an already existing system of rendition, targeting, secret jails, secret charges, and the slow but sure fact that this system is on the way to the "homeland".

It's happened before, but the latest technology in the hands of a superpower gives it a different scope.

[mikeysnot]

36. Problem in it is not

a superpower that has to answer to the people, but the super corporation with no allegiance to any country, just a few oligarchs who are in it for themselves.

This isn't news it is a distraction, been going on for years, I found out in 2002, mostly on here on DU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28software%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

Bamford wrote that Wired article 6-7 years ago....

Link is on another thread.

[Ligyron]

13. Freakin hilarious!

[arely staircase]

14. that's funny

well played

[KamaAina]

15. Silly rug. The CIA doesn't snoop on anyone's Facebook.

It's the NSA that does.

[panader0]

16. I heard that Facebook is buying the NSA

[Electric Monk]

17. CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/

[Fuddnik]

20. Ever try to get a facebook app off a smart phone?

Can't do it.

Don't use it. Don't want it. Fuck it.

[Savannahmann]

34. I'm saddened that the Onion is closing down.

But they are right. Far too often the reality is so close to the absurdity that it is troubling.

[SheilaT]

39. Uhhh, The Onion isn't closing down.

That announcement was a prank.

[TxDemChem]

23. Cute

[Iggo]

24. Ha!

[SCVDem]

25. People post their entire life on Facebook

Then they get pissed over NSA surveillance.

I just don't understand!

[Liberal_in_LA]

28. people post only what they want to make public on facebook, not their whole life

[Liberal_in_LA]

26. lol

[uponit7771]

27. +1

[crim son]

29. Bwahahahahahahah!

You had me for a moment!

[MichaelSoE]

30. damn ... everytime i get used to changes in fb they do it again

[leeroysphitz]

31. Good one, lol.

[Savannahmann]

32. The best jokes are the ones with a bit of truth.

That one has more than a bit of truth to it.

[Skinner]

33. Rofl.

love it.

[harun]

35. Instant classic

[we can do it]

37. Any idiot who thought facebook wasn't selling everything about them gets what they deserve.

[RoccoR5955]

38. Stolen and shared! N/T