Is the NSA checking your Status Updates ?

Capt'n Midnight · 09-06-2013 10:14PM

What goes on tour stays on tour.

What goes on the internet stays on the internet.

Grab All Association · 10-06-2013 01:21AM

How long before this man mysteriously disappears?

looking_around · 10-06-2013 02:06AM

I just get shocked at the people who are surprised by this.

Like seriously.. If it's going through a server of any sort,then someone has access to it..(other then the original sender/receiver.....for those that need the obvious stated)>.>

Capt'n Midnight · 10-06-2013 09:30AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

Just a reminder that ISP's are legally obliged to hold on to data.
Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2011/en/act/pub/0003/print.html

Obligation to retain data.

3.— (1) A service provider shall retain data in the categories specified in Schedule 2 , for a period of 2 years in respect of the data referred to in Part 1 of Schedule 2 and for a period of one year in respect of the data referred to in Part 2 of Schedule 2 .

and if you need loophole abuse try this

(3) An officer of the Revenue Commissioners not below the rank of principal officer may request a service provider to disclose to that officer data retained by the service provider in accordance with section 3 where that officer is satisfied that the data are required for the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of a revenue offence.

(4) A disclosure request shall be made in writing, but in cases of exceptional urgency the request may be made orally (whether by telephone or otherwise) by a person entitled under subsection (1), (2) or (3) to make the request.

It's plausible that anyone downloading anything from the interweb could potentially be avoiding some tax and so be subject to an investigation.

In the US it's a little different because the service providers charge law enforcement agencies so it's good business to rat on your customers, to the stage that requests were given on post it notes, instead of going though the full procedures.

And that's when they play by the rules.

MYDADPULLEDOUT · 10-06-2013 01:23PM

http://obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com/

FouxDaFaFa · 10-06-2013 08:06PM

Chris___ wrote: »

How long before this man mysteriously disappears?

This long.

There's probably no cause for alarm but he's gone from his Hong Kong hotel. His whereabouts are currently unknown.

(Hopefully he managed to hop a plane to Iceland or something).

Kichote · 19-06-2013 06:29PM

any newsies on where he's after going now?

Is someone after getting to work on him with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch on a CIA plane?

FouxDaFaFa · 20-06-2013 12:11AM

He's still in Hong Kong afaik, he allegedly chatted with the Guardian a few days ago and said he would not be returning to the US willingly.

ThreeBlindMice · 20-06-2013 11:32AM

Investigative Journalist Michael Hastings from Rolling Stone magazine Dies in Fiery Hollywood Crash - 'It sounded like a bomb went off' - He was currently working On a CIA and NSA story ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou63u6Ekycc

FouxDaFaFa · 20-06-2013 12:02PM

ThreeBlindMice wrote: »

Investigative Journalist Michael Hastings from Rolling Stone magazine Dies in Fiery Hollywood Crash - 'It sounded like a bomb went off' - He was currently working On a CIA and NSA story

I was humming and hawwing about posting this myself. I've never been into conspiracy theories in a big way but the details of his death are so strange.

He was working on a story about the NSA. He mentioned in a Reddit AMA a year ago that he's received credible death threats.

Every once and awhile, I'll get a death threat from someone--like, "if we don't like what you write, we'll hunt you down and kill you" kind of thing. But there's a more insidious response most of the time when you piss off the powerful. They come after your career, they try to come after your credibility. They do cocktail party whisper campaigns. They try to make you "controversial." Sadly, The Powers That Be are often aided by other journalists. The Pentagon has launched three investigations into stories I've done over the past 18 months under the pretense of finding the wrongdoing we were exposing. But the investigations were really about creating a Pentagon approved official document to criticize journalism they don't like.

He contacts Wikileaks a couple of hours before his death to say he's found out that the FBI are investigating him. He dies in a single vehicle crash on an empty street at 4am, crashing with such force that the engine blew out of its compartment and the entire (new, Mercedes) car exploded and was engulfed in flames.

The realistic part of me thinks this is just a tragic, ill-timed accident but it does have an awful smack of Karen Silkwood about it. Then again, maybe there was a fault with the new car. Maybe he was drinking. Maybe he killed himself, etc.

Is the NSA checking your Status Updates ?

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