** ** Employer Tipped Off Police In Pressure Cooker/Backpack-Gate, Not Google****
Alexia Tsotsis**** ** ** http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/employer-tipped-off-police-in-pressure-cookerbackpack-gate-not-google/ **** ** ** **** ** ** In what might be Medium's first widespread Twitter moment, music writer**** Michele Catalano used the platform to blog details of an unexpected visit to **** her home yesterday, from six men she identifies as members of the "joint**** terrorism task force."**** ** ** Catalano asserts that the visit was likely prompted by her husband searching **** for the term "backpacks" in close conjunction with her searching for the**** term "pressure cookers."**** ** ** Turns out the visit was prompted by the searches, but not in the way most*** * speculation asserted - by a law enforcement-initiated, NSA-enabled dragnet** ** of the couple's web history. It turns out either Catalano or her husband**** were conducting these searches from a work computer. And that employer, "a** ** Bay Shore based computer company" called the police on their former**** employee.**** ** ** The Suffolk County PD has just released the following information related to **** the case:**** ** ** Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a*** * Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches**** conducted by a recently released employee. The former employee's computer** ** searches took place on this employee's workplace computer. On that**** computer, the employee searched the terms "pressure cooker bombs" and**** "backpacks."**** ** ** After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police*** * Detectives visited the subject's home to ask about the suspicious internet** ** searches. The incident was investigated by Suffolk County Police**** Department's Criminal Intelligence Detectives and was determined to be**** non-criminal in nature.**** ** ** Any further inquiries regarding this matter should be directed to the*** * Suffolk County Police Department**** ** ** This should be a teachable moment to anyone who thinks that their workplace* *** computers are somehow not being tracked.**** __._,_.___ __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
