--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > Apparently they want us to spend our whole day "social > networking." I get enumerable invitations from people > who want me to "join them" on "fill in the blank". > Since I ignore these I suspect people think I'm > anti-social. But I have real things to do not sit > around and chit-chat and FFL is bad enough.
Tell me about it. :-) > Of course why am I not surprised that the headlines say > most American are okay with spying. Just tell them you > enjoyed watching the sex they had last night as you > hacked into the NSA video feed! We live in a > nation of sheeple who behave like they are on a TV > series. Ever notice that? I would make some snippy Buckaroo Banzai riff remark about it being "... your damned country, monkey-boy," but to be honest I suspect the French would react the same way. They're *used* to being spied on. And they have been since Napoleon. If you've ever lived in Paris you know about the institution called "concierges." They're the people (almost always women) who live in one of the apartments in your building and who are in charge of taking out the garbage cans to the curb, distributing the mail, calling repairmen when some- thing breaks, etc. And they're always just SO friendly as you walk past their apartment. But then you start to notice that all your mail has been opened before you got it. And you start to notice that the concierge is spending an inord- inate amount of her time leaning out of her window listening to conversations coming from the open windows of her fellow tenants. When I first moved to Paris I thought this was just *my* concierge. But then I started listening to people talk -- not just ex-pats but natives -- and *everybody's* concierge is like that. It's so prevalent that the "snoopy concierge" is a veritable Paris meme. And then a friend who had lived here for some years told me about where the tradition of concierges *came from*. It was an invention of Napoleon. His wars had...uh...created a lot of widows. These widows had no way to support themselves. Bad PR. So he *mandated* the position of concierge, and made sure that all of his war widows were the ones to take the newly-created positions. All he asked in return (no shit...this is history) was that they snoop on all of their neighbors and report what they heard or read in these people's mail back to his counterpart of the NSA. And they do it to this day. Really. I've seen a dozen stories in the media about some criminal being captured as the result of a tip-off from his concierge. So for Parisians, somebody reading their mail is No Big Deal. They've been living with it for almost two centuries. > On 06/11/2013 11:24 AM, obbajeeba wrote: > > Great bribery material on both sides of a NDA, the NSA and its fumbling > > agencies backdoor offshores could really fuck someone up. > > Someone could easily shut up either side , and/or make it impossible for > > people to reap any gain, in case of "embarrassment," to whoever is targeted > > by a rogue employee or agency. > > People having nothing to hide or nothing to loose have no worries, and I > > think this can be looked at as one big happy family orgy and can easily > > blow up in our faces. > > Very dangerous practices these days. > > Boom. Come and get me big brother. > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > >> Which also means that all those "secret" projects that companies do to > >> "disrupt" the tech world and that team members sign NDAs for are all > >> know to the government. Must make tech execs feel "real good." > >> > >> BTW, for those who don't know the term "disrupt" or "new disruptive > >> technology" is a buzzword a lot of tech companies are using nowadays. I > >> crack up every time I see it in a job posting. It makes it sound like > >> their project is a terrorist activity. :-D > >> > >> We've posted keywords here on FFL posts. Also just typed in junk to > >> keep their computers crunching. What they still haven't figured out is > >> that ALL email on Internet is code and they're the only ones who don't > >> know it. > >> > >> On 06/10/2013 08:51 PM, obbajeeba wrote: > >>> Yes, Dr. Da, > >>> My brother shared these similar things with me and my family in the early > >>> nineties too. "Everything we type or upload to the internet, never > >>> disappears," is how he worded it. It is good for others to know, there > >>> are no secrets in cyberspace. Therefore be all and bare all! LOL > >>> > >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ <no_reply@> wrote: > >>>> I worked with the first digital protocol analyzers in 1992 - Remember > >>>> the Network General Sniffer (Compaq lunchbox hardware)? Anyway, that is > >>>> when any engineer with a protocol analyzer, and an Ethernet cable, could > >>>> plug into a Central Office phone switch, and download as much [filtered] > >>>> data as there was memory on the box. Spoofing is also ridiculously easy > >>>> (if you want data to appear to originate from another location). As is > >>>> stripping headers off tunneled data. And that was in 1992 - 21 years ago. > >>>> > >>>> That's probably when they started doing this shit. I obviously have no > >>>> proof it was warrantless at the time, but it has been easy, and > >>>> possible, since that time. As a result, I am hardly upset that this has > >>>> finally been revealed. > >>>> > >>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba <no_reply@> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > >>>>>> On 06/09/2013 07:38 AM, obbajeeba wrote: > >>>>>>> http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/244954 > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> Good ol' Michael. He posted my "PeopleVille" video on his site and > >>>>>> that > >>>>>> day was when it got the most views. He is an effects specialist for > >>>>>> TV > >>>>>> shows and movies. He worked on "Lost" and that's why he and his wife > >>>>>> live in Hawaii. He's an atheist and his wife writes gospel music. Go > >>>>>> figure. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> PeopleVille: > >>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbgBpldEazo > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I've been thinking about doing a "Don't Pay the Rich Man's Bills" > >>>>>> video. > >>>>>> > >>>>> Good idea. > >>>>> > >>>>> http://trollthensa.com/ > >>>>> > >>> > > > > >
