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Julian Assange "Facebook and Google are directly serving US Intelligence"

  • 30-11-2012 5:03pm
    #1
    OurLadyofKnock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 558 ✭✭✭


    Very intersting interview. Looks like the conspiracy folks nailed this one correctly. Glad I am not on Facebook.



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  • #2
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    What exactly makes you glad you are not on FB?


  • #3
    OurLadyofKnock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 558 ✭✭✭OurLadyofKnock


    Gives me the creeps on every level. Being asked to like mindless BS and looking at people with nothing say waiting for likes for making a coffee or some other mudane task.

    Oh, and it is the greatest public surveilence method ever devised.


  • #4
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Just why the hell would US Intelligence be interested in the txt spk comments the Jedward fans who populate facebook ?

    I think they have more important things on their minds.

    This is Jim Corr territory.


  • #5
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    OurLadyofKnock wrote: »
    Very intersting interview. Looks like the conspiracy folks nailed this one correctly.

    Yeah, that's all the proof I need!


  • #6
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    keith16 wrote: »
    What exactly makes you glad you are not on FB?

    Coz its a load of bollox?


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  • #7
    Captain Slow IRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,651 ✭✭✭Captain Slow IRL


    Is it that big a deal? Unless you're planning on some attack against the infidels, you're grand.


  • #8
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I write very little about myself on FB - not that I engage in anything anyone would be interested in but I'm very aware that when something goes up there you can never get it back.

    It's like a digital tattoo - only irreversible.


  • #9
    overshoot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭overshoot


    cool then, theyl have all my details sorted already when i go looking for a work visa. makes life easier :)


  • #10
    Silent Runner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭Silent Runner


    Watched whole vid, no tin foil hats:(


  • #11
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    It's hardly surprising. Carrier pigeons directly served intelligence agencies during the 1st world war =p


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  • #12
    OurLadyofKnock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 558 ✭✭✭OurLadyofKnock


    Silent Runner wrote: »
    Watched whole vid, no tin foil hats:(


    It is a very good talk. He made some very good points.

    I like the guy.


  • #13
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    I never do anything meaningful on FB. If the Americans want to look at 300 odd pics of me out drinking with my friends then let them. It's only people that throw up their most intimate details that should start worrying.

    Any of them that look up what I do on google will have nightmares.


  • #14
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Sure all the mods here are in the pay of US intelligence


  • #15
    OurLadyofKnock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 558 ✭✭✭OurLadyofKnock


    c_man wrote: »
    Sure all the mods here are in the pay of US intelligence


    Really? I thought they were mostly civil servants dossing all day.


  • #16
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Jeez, I'm just glad I never post anything on the internet.


  • #17
    ArseLtd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭ArseLtd


    I'm sure the Us intelligence are full of old people who don't know what facebook is and don't see how incredibly useful facebook, google and other sites are for surveillance :rolleyes:


  • #18
    gb40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭gb40


    Thank god i'm not using google plus.


  • #19
    Death and Taxes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    OurLadyofKnock wrote: »
    Very intersting interview. Looks like the conspiracy folks nailed this one correctly. Glad I am not on Facebook.

    So says the worlds most famous rape accused fugitive.
    When you face your own truth Julian then you can tell us all the tales you like:mad:


  • #20
    Hippies!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Hippies!


    WileyCoyote wrote: »
    So says the worlds most famous rape accused fugitive.
    When you face your own truth Julian then you can tell us all the tales you like:mad:

    He didn't actually commit rape as we know it though....it was just sex without a johnny? I should've 15 years solitary confinement for that crime. :pac:


  • #21
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    My name is URL wrote: »
    It's hardly surprising. Carrier pigeons directly served intelligence agencies during the 1st world war =p
    The first world warp was pretty crazy alright!


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  • #22
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,472 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    WileyCoyote wrote: »
    So says the worlds most famous rape accused fugitive.
    When you face your own truth Julian then you can tell us all the tales you like:mad:

    Like someone else said, it's not rape in the way we know it. And it's a dodgy case. Plus he said he'd leave and go to sweden if he could be assured that he would not be held for extradition in either the UK or sweden.

    That is getting off topic though and there's been plenty of threads about it already.
    Regarding facebook and monitoring by intelligence agencies. memwith hill is a monitoring base that can tap into 1 million phones at the same time. It tracks calls listening for keywords and when it picks them up, it sends the transcript for analysis. It's been around since long before the internet became popular.



    But this is the one video worth watching
    Mark Thomas finds out that although it's a top secret listening base, it's not a no fly zone. So he arranges hot air balloon tours through the base.


  • #23
    BASHIR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭BASHIR


    OurLadyofKnock wrote: »
    Gives me the creeps on every level. Being asked to like mindless BS and looking at people with nothing say waiting for likes for making a coffee or some other mudane task.

    Oh, and it is the greatest public surveilence method ever devised.

    If people have nothing to say then why the hell would an inteligence agency want anything got to do with it.

    You only have to look not to far back to see how important and influential facebook and twitter have been.

    The conflicts in Syria and the uprising in Egypt were almost all orchestrated through social networking.

    If you dont feel you are getting anything important from it you are obviously following and friends with the wrong people


  • #24
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Do people realise that the content you see on Facebook is mostly generated by your "friends". Saying Facebook is dumb is like saying you've got a lot of dumb friends that post dumb shit on Facebook. Facebook for me isn't dumb and is often quite interesting...

    What you put on the internet isn't secret. Once you understand and accept that everything is Ok. Everyone knows to use Tor for your terrorist activities anyway and let poor bastards in Austria take the rap.


  • #25
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    So Assange realises he's not in the news any more and states the obvious, thinking it makes him sound more like the peoples hero that he likes to pretend to be?


  • #26
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    humanji wrote: »
    So Assange realises he's not in the news any more and states the obvious, thinking it makes him sound more like the peoples hero that he likes to pretend to be?
    Well, he's got a book out which is about all this stuff.


  • #27
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I thought everyone knew that social media was monitored? Remember the Irish couple stopped at emigration and sent home from the States for commenting on twitter that they were going to wreck the place...


  • #28
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Was it just me who Lolld at the OP saying they were glad they never went on Facebook to avoid Internet surveillance (and saying it on a massively read public forum). Way to stay under the radar! Especially starting a thread that set off about 97 zillion monitoring key-word alarms. Our lady might get a knock yet!


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