Federal agents could secretly be watching your every move FYI

[98valk]

and other news articles

http://www.thedailycrux.com/content/6514/Government/eml

[3fan4life]

If privacy is your chief concern, head for smaller countries that lack both the arrogance and finances to conduct surveillance their own citizens– places like Chile, Croatia, Uruguay, Sri Lanka, Lithuania, and Costa Rica. 

A good friend of mine is planning to move to Costa Rica because he is "fed up" with the direction that this country is going in.

You'd actually be surprised to find out "who" is tracking you.

Last month I discovered that Staples was tracking "all" of my purchases there. Even if I didn't use the rewards card. If you have ever used a credit card along with your rewards card they will continue to track any purchases made with that credit card.

After complaining to the presidents office and getting nowhere, I no longer shop at staples.

[Chrisj CMA]

We were talking about this the other day.........between my bullets and three of my wifes Sons that have theirs sent to my address Im sure this house is on some list as a stockpiler of ammunitiona and guns.

.357,.40,.45,.50 (rifle and pistol), .223, .303, .308 

If they are watching.........maybe they will be  skeered to knock on the door.  Good luck if they do 

[Kaiser]

I don't think it's much of a secret that we are being watched/tracked.

Just try to go off-grid.  No cell phones, no credit/debit cards, no internet, no GPS, etc...

Basically, no technology.  Gotta go old school if you don't want to be watched.  (Which begs a question - I wonder how many Amish are worried about this issue?  )

The Bourne movies and Enemy of the State are good movies that address this issue.

[Serk]

I'm not being watched...

But, I've seen the lists, and believe me, YOU are MOST DEFINITELY being watched! Boy howdy are you being watched...

(Tongue in cheek, for the humor impaired)

[hubcapsc]

I've been root on mail servers and general purpose unix machines for over 20 years... though
I haven't been on the front lines of system administration in the last few years...

I've analyzed log files for both incoming and outgoing email and log files with process accounting (what
command was entered and who entered it) information tons of times with programs that would flag... unusual
situations.

All this, and I've never read an individual's email, and I've never paid any attention to
what any particular individual was doing, but many times I have identified the place where the hack
occurred, and/or the place where the bad thing happened...

Of course I don't know what any government is doing, but statistical analysis of raw data (and there's
tons of raw data flying all over the place out there) is a powerful tool that can be used to
focus in on what needs to be focused in on.

The important question to me is the human question: who's deciding what needs to be focused on and
why?

-Mike

[sugerbear]

if they don't have anything better to do than track me, let em. i don't give a shi$$

[ricoman]

if they don't have anything better to do than track me, let em. i don't give a shi$$

that makes perfect sense to me!
the term not giving a rats a$$ also comes to mind.

[buzz]

I don’t know if it’s the government agents or state and local but if I had to guess, it’s not because they don’t have anything else to do.  I would imagine that it takes a lot of time and effort to watch someone.  Anyway, our country has changed a lot in the last 20 or 30 years.  We have many sleeper cells (as they call them) who’s members are citizens of this country and therefore, they need to be watched in order to prevent another attack.  So they’re watching me, so what?  If I’m not doing anything wrong, let them watch me and they will soon move on.       

[Tropic traveler]

If I'm being watched, there are going to be some very bored watchers!!!

[six2go #152]

Watchin' me??? Man, are they gonna be bored. 

[BudMan]

If I'm being watched, there are going to be some very bored watchers!!!

  I hear ya!
On my last recurring security investigation the investigator hammered at me for 10 minutes trying to "help me remember" anything that I felt someone could use to coerce me into doing something I shouldn't do.   

[Daniel Meyer]

  If I’m not doing anything wrong, let them watch me and they will soon move on.       

Oh, but you *are* doing something wrong...you just don't know what it is yet.

[sheets]

I have family that bought a place and moved to Costa Rica a little over a year ago. Their place is up for sale. They are moving back to the good 'ol  US of A in January. Not all that its cut out to be. At least in their neck of the woods, er, uh, I mean jungle. Yrmv,   

[Piper]

ok, I am one of the "Watchers" on my worksite network: aka "Big Brother" or "The CERT".

And I can tell you that there are somethings I would just rather not see........

I do not really care about what turns people on, they just should keep it on their home computer and not do it at work, ya know what I mean? 

On the flip side, I no longer have to search for those really bizzare websites, my users do it for me.

[stormrider]

We were talking about this the other day.........between my bullets and three of my wifes Sons that have theirs sent to my address Im sure this house is on some list as a stockpiler of ammunitiona and guns.

.357,.40,.45,.50 (rifle and pistol), .223, .303, .308 

If they are watching.........maybe they will be  skeered to knock on the door.  Good luck if they do 

Hey bro., when am I gonna get to play with that S&W 50cal.?