NSA Secretly Collecting Phone Records Of All U.S. Verizon Calls

[Lemur]

True story: Two members of my family have been in the US intelligence business. One of them told me in that all overseas calls were monitored with word-recognition software. (This was 1990, so pretty Sci Fi stuff at the time.)

I lived in Madrid in the early 1990s, back when calling home was a big and expensive thing. (Yes, phone calls used to cost a lot of money, it was an old timey problem.)

Every time I called the states I would begin my conversations with a few random words, such as "thermonuclear device" and "dead drop," just for funsies. Over half of my (expensive) calls were cut off without warning.

I did this purely to amuse myself.

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Also, very depressing poll shows why large-scale surveillance is gonna be very hard to contain: Most of our fellow citizens are totally cool with it. Gah.

[ICantSpellDawg]

Also, very depressing poll shows why large-scale surveillance is gonna be very hard to contain: Most of our fellow citizens are totally cool with it. Gah.

The older generations who have been sheep to the slaughter will eventually die off, hopefully before ruining the entire earth for the rest of humanity. Anyone who has ever lost a job due to marijuana/drug consumption or has had someone tell them not to post photos of lawful activity on their private Facebook pages will recognize how petty government will be if we let it and ruinous to you if you make an error. I see the world changing before our eyes. 8 months ago, the idea that 100k people would pile up and go to battle with the AK party in Istanbul would not have sounded like a thing. Then it happened and it is going to spread and get worse and reasonable people from different religious, political, and cultural backgrounds are going to support it all over the world.