Posts by TexTopCat

Light the torches! NSA's BFF Senator Feinstein calls for e-book burning

Re: Next week...meanwhile

"Register as amateur scientists" - why would we allow government to be involved in any of this. If you create something dangerous and cause harm, then arrest and punishment is needed. Otherwise, why should "big brother" know or care what chemicals you have to experiment with. Just as government has no business know who has guns or what kind of guns they have.

US Marshals commit DIRTBOX INTRUSION on Americans, says report

Re: BernardL

"if I were caught up in the unintentional dragnet, I know quite well my activities would clear me." - maybe and maybe not. Your absolutely legal and morally sound activities may be considered against the current administration and therefor get you labeled as a threat. Just as numerous vets are denied rights based on their service in the military. Any administration that would misrepresent a major healthcare law would not stop at doing other underhanded things.

Re: remove battery

And how exactly are you going do that with modern phones where the battery is permanently installed like the iPhone?

Re: What is the difference between this and ANPR?

Tracking is only a very small part of the issue. Every bit of information that is transmitted by the phone is recorded and reviewed, not only the phones that they have some reason to monitor, but all of the phones in a several mile area. This is like putting the "government" in between you and your family or lawyer. The technology is extremely powerful when abused.

The basic question is do we have the expectation of privacy for any form of communication at this point in time? I wonder if the cure for crime prevention is not worse than the problem.

Re: Nothing to hide nothing to fear

Or you make a anti-Obama comment that gets snagged and are now labeled as a "threat".

Re: Pity...

"micro cells" are available for sale to the public. Many companies that have large buildings with poor cell coverage install such devices. People that have homes in the fringe coverage area also can use such devices. If your home is totally out of range, then these devices will transmit data over an internet connection to the rest of the phone network.

I know people that use them.

Re: Dirtboxes being used by dirtbags!!

The problem is that they get all of the phones in the area, maybe 4 or 5 square miles and capture not only "metadata" but all of the conversations. Also, there is no accounting for what they will use any stray data that they find.

They should be required to get a wiretap court order and be prohibited from intercepting or recording data/traffic from any other devices in the area.