[Newsbot]

Title: Google 'Pressure Cookers' and 'Backpacks,' Get a Visit from the Cops
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2013-08-01 11:54:28

[Jabberwalker]

I guess that this chunk of Plutonium that I just bought on Craigslist might get someone's attention.

[saturn_656]

$1:

Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, and Facebook are snitching on their users.

Remember PRISM?

[BartSimpson]

Stop using Google as a search engine is the message here.

Try Startpage or DuckDuckGo - both use HTTPS encryption and they also allow you to see you search results via a proxy in order to hide your IP address.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Stop using Google as a search engine is the message here.

Try Startpage or DuckDuckGo - both use HTTPS encryption and they also allow you to see you search results via a proxy in order to hide your IP address.

HTTPS isn't a saviour either. Recall the story last week that intellegence services were looking for master crypto keys from websites so they can 'man in the middle' encrypted traffic?

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Stop using Google as a search engine is the message here.

Try Startpage or DuckDuckGo - both use HTTPS encryption and they also allow you to see you search results via a proxy in order to hide your IP address.

HTTPS isn't a saviour either. Recall the story last week that intellegence services were looking for master crypto keys from websites so they can 'man in the middle' encrypted traffic?

Some will do this but not all.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Some will do this but not all.

I'm of the opinion that the answer we are looking for here is for intelligence services to stop spying to Mr. Camper and Mrs. Canner and everyone else in the hopes that one of the 350 million US citizens might be planning something naughty.

The expense and added levels of government that need to adminster all the bullshit arguable do little to make anyone safer, and do too much to make everyone less free.

last edited by the NSA.

[Freakinoldguy]

$1:

Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?

I wonder where this news outlet's been for the last 2 years while the sneakiest President since Nixon worked his magic?

[Brenda]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

I guess that this chunk of Plutonium that I just bought on Craigslist might get someone's attention.

So is the shipment of bombs, grenade throwers, guns and other weaponry that I just sent in reply to the Nigerian email-scammer...

[martin14]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Some will do this but not all.

I'm of the opinion that the answer we are looking for here is for intelligence services to stop spying to Mr. Camper and Mrs. Canner and everyone else in the hopes that one of the 350 million US citizens might be planning something naughty.

Don't count on it. If anything, it will get worse. Much worse.

[DrCaleb]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

$1:

Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, and Facebook are snitching on their users.

Remember PRISM?

Turns out, it wasn't the feds. It was an old employer, going through the web cache.

$1:

CLARIFICATION AND UPDATE

We found out through the Suffolk Police Department that the searches involved also things my husband looked up at his old job. We were not made aware of this at the time of questioning and were led to believe it was solely from searches from within our house.

I did not lie or make it up. I wrote the piece with the information that was given. What was withheld from us obviously could not be a part of a story I wrote based on what happened yesterday.

https://medium.com/something-like-falling/2e7d13e54724

[CDN_PATRIOT]

I have two backpacks and a wok. What can I make with them?

-J.

[BartSimpson]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

I have two backpacks and a wok. What can I make with them?

-J.

Depends on how you cook the backpacks.

[Tyler_1]

I have a slow cooker.

Watch out.

[Regina]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

I have two backpacks and a wok. What can I make with them?

-J.

A wok holder?