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Related: About this forumahmahgahd verizon haz mah infos oh noooes!!
AHMAHGAHD VERIZON HAZ MAH INFOS OH NOOOES!!
yes. its called your phone bill.
Heres how it works:
The US makes a backup copy of the telecom records. They cant access that info without a FISA warrant, unlike what Bush did warrantless everyfrakingthing . and actual wiretapping. Thats not whats happening now. No one in the US GOV cares that you are addicted to Facebook. However, HBO (a private corporation) cares that youre downloading Game of Thrones illegally. Theres a difference.
Most people arent really processing what Snowdon said; that he could wiretap/listen/access whatever not that he did, or that anyone else has ever or that its going on OMG constantly to OMG everyone in the US 24/7, yet thats how the OMG-HAIR-ON-FIRE media is making it out. Im curious how Snowdons private sector employer feels about their, uhm, employee.
Its funny, but how the frak did this Snowdon guy, get a $200k a year gig in Hawaii with no high school diploma, and never finishing a single computer class, in the first place? Seriously, Im more qualified than he is. And how does he know exactly what he can and cannot do, when Im not sure how much of a grasp he really has on how the technology works .. and why it might be necessary . having been at that job for only a short time? Ive just got a whole problem with this dudes story. Im not saying what he leaked was completely inaccurate, but since the media has very little interest these days in anything more than pouring gasoline on the fire of their own hysteria, and actually researching a story for accuracy, that I have my doubts.
SNIP:
But to act pearl-clutchingly Lindsey Graham + Glenn Greenwalds love baby SHOCKED like the ZOMFG people are doing over this, makes me laugh. Have they never thought about their own phone bill beyond paying it? Yet theyre the first to complain about who dropped the ball on the Boston Marathon bombers.
The US makes a backup copy of the telecom records. They cant access that info without a FISA warrant, unlike what Bush did warrantless everyfrakingthing . and actual wiretapping. Thats not whats happening now. No one in the US GOV cares that you are addicted to Facebook. However, HBO (a private corporation) cares that youre downloading Game of Thrones illegally. Theres a difference.
Most people arent really processing what Snowdon said; that he could wiretap/listen/access whatever not that he did, or that anyone else has ever or that its going on OMG constantly to OMG everyone in the US 24/7, yet thats how the OMG-HAIR-ON-FIRE media is making it out. Im curious how Snowdons private sector employer feels about their, uhm, employee.
Its funny, but how the frak did this Snowdon guy, get a $200k a year gig in Hawaii with no high school diploma, and never finishing a single computer class, in the first place? Seriously, Im more qualified than he is. And how does he know exactly what he can and cannot do, when Im not sure how much of a grasp he really has on how the technology works .. and why it might be necessary . having been at that job for only a short time? Ive just got a whole problem with this dudes story. Im not saying what he leaked was completely inaccurate, but since the media has very little interest these days in anything more than pouring gasoline on the fire of their own hysteria, and actually researching a story for accuracy, that I have my doubts.
SNIP:
But to act pearl-clutchingly Lindsey Graham + Glenn Greenwalds love baby SHOCKED like the ZOMFG people are doing over this, makes me laugh. Have they never thought about their own phone bill beyond paying it? Yet theyre the first to complain about who dropped the ball on the Boston Marathon bombers.
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ahmahgahd verizon haz mah infos oh noooes!! (Original Post)
sheshe2
Jun 2013
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Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)1. Hahaha hahaha!! That is hilarious.
I like the cat cartoon at the top, too.
Cha
(296,775 posts)3. Wasn't that Purrrfection?!
Cha
(296,775 posts)2. It's Hysterical, she! thanks for posting this
.. We need our own little BOG story on this!
Ive just got a whole problem with this dudes story. Im not saying what he leaked was completely inaccurate, but since the media has very little interest these days in anything more than pouring gasoline on the fire of their own hysteria, and actually researching a story for accuracy, that I have my doubts.
That Cat Graphic is perfection! TAlly on TOD is FUNNY!
The phrase tally-ho is a largely British phrase, used in foxhunting and other forms of hunting with hounds, shouted when a rider or follower sees the fox (or other quarry).~ from wiki.
Methinks Tally is inciting the hounds to chase the fox. Cah!
Cha
(296,775 posts)6. Tally is great, she.. a real gem!
And, she can tell it with wicked humor!
Like someone else I know.
BOG
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)4. ya. and as you wondered
how did he get that job?