nytimes.com — The F.B.I. cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone-call and e-mail patterns of the associates of Americans who had come under suspicion, according to newly obtained bureau records
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sharpforkSep 9, 2007
Napoleone made one of the best comments I have ever read on Digg in a blogged version of this story.from: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/politics/If_I_m_innocent_I_have_nothing_to_worry_about_from_FBI_wiretaps_right">http://digg.com/politics/If_I_m_innocent_I_have_nothing_to_worry_about_from_FBI_wiretaps_right</a>QUOTE from comment:There's a certain breed of people who love extreme order. They yearn for it. They need it. It's the same type of people who banned chewing gum in Singapore. It's the Taliban. It's the Nazis. It's that teacher you're sure just needs a good f**k, and she'll leave you alone. And I don't know to what degree such a thing is innate in them. It may be that these people were simply raised in an environment where their every move was prescribed and mapped out, and old habits died hard; so long as they were good habits, per the opinion of mommy and daddy.There are no real rebels anymore. None that I can tell. No one puts it all on the line. We're all just a bunch of heretics with too little time to worry about anything beyond our immediate concerns; our jobs, our bills, our waning social lives. Do we even talk to each other anymore? It seems where there's no friendship, there are just shouts. No such thing as a polite disagreement these days. It's all shoot to kill. My way or the die way.But, oh yeah, I know. We're the U.S of A. The top of the food chain. We're the tip of the pyramid and the world is the base. But when the blood behind most our luxuries rolls down and stains enough faces, let's not behave as though their rage was uncalled for and their hatred unexpected. The price of consumerism at the expense of five billion other people is a Police State. And for the gum banners of the world, that's precisely how it ought to be.
insanebrainSep 9, 2007
- "However could it come to the point that our government would abuse its power?"because . .we . .the people, let them. Americans forgot that they have the power. . not the government.
mithrasinvictusSep 9, 2007
Let's not pretend there is any way to know that either way.
desitekSep 9, 2007
how they analysis such a huge data?
williamdyerSep 9, 2007
Computing power is cheap. You could look for keywords in 100% of all the world's phone traffic for less than the price of one photo-reconnaissance satellite.
williamdyerSep 9, 2007
Linux distros should start enabling email and VoIP encryption by default. f**k the snoops.
rcook18Sep 10, 2007
At some point, we'll discover that this wire tapping has nothing to do with a war on terror -- it is simply data mining. Soon, your browsers will display targeted pop-up ads based on this collected data. Follow the money.