Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Actually, it was when Bush was first elected, not Obama. Yep, that long ago. You can read a bit about it here: http://www.houseoffusion.com/privacy.cfm On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > basically some fool opened his mouth and made what was interpreted as > a threat to

Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Judah McAuley
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Rick Root wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Michael Dinowitz > wrote: >> >> A privacy watchdog's freedom of information request has revealed a >> government memo encouraging agents to befriend people on a variety of >> social networks, to take advantag

Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Rick Root
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > > A privacy watchdog's freedom of information request has revealed a > government memo encouraging agents to befriend people on a variety of > social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share -- and This hardly fits my defi

Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Sam
I remember it as a death threat in the title. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > basically some fool opened his mouth and made what was interpreted as > a threat to the current president. A couple of days later several > secret service agents had a nice quiet talk with Mi

Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
basically some fool opened his mouth and made what was interpreted as a threat to the current president. A couple of days later several secret service agents had a nice quiet talk with Michael. From my understanding there were no thumbscrews or rubber truncheons involved. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at

Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Casey Dougall
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Medic wrote: > > > > > Remember the famous cf-talk secret service call? This is beyond that. > > > That's before my time. Please do tell! > yeah, before my time, or email search box didn't find it...

Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Medic
> > Remember the famous cf-talk secret service call? This is beyond that. That's before my time. Please do tell! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=

Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
FBI. And the kid just had an Arabic name. He should have attached it to a stray dog and let the FBI chase the tracker all over the town. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > > The secret service has been doing it for years. Remember the famous > cf-talk secret service call

Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Michael Dinowitz
The secret service has been doing it for years. Remember the famous cf-talk secret service call? This is beyond that. Look at the news last week about some kid who found a gps tracker on his car due to something he said online somewhere. Wasn't the secret service. I have to write out the full nam

Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Casey Dougall
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > I posted the wrong title. It should read: > Big brother is your friend. :) > > > President Obama is my friend, so at least it's Secrete Service doing the snooping and not NSA or something. ;-) ~~~

Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I posted the wrong title. It should read: Big brother is your friend. :) ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseof

Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I can hear some people saying that it's just fox news. It can't be real...but it is. Is the Government Spying on Us Through Social Networks? http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/13/government-spying-social-networks/ A privacy watchdog's freedom of information request has revealed a government