dude stop it. you're preaching to the choir. you aint telling me nothing i dont already know. but you are acting as if the new game isnt online. it is, and you know it. just like the new game is not using landlines its using cell phones.Calm your dumbass down. Dudes have been blowing up sh!t for years. Only now, the internet age, has the government had the means to intrude to this degree. Without the knowledge of the people they go beyond privacy invasion and you are trying to tell me that the only way that these dudes can catch someone thats about to institute a major terrorist operation is to read ALL OUR EMAILS?
You ask me to outline how without this invasion of privacy can the government possibly catch these people? We aren't talking about banning the use of technology. We are talking about finding these guys in the most efficient way possible. Regardless of whats said over email, if these guys want to do some major damage, there are things they must purchase, or smuggle into the country. Regardless of whose email they are watching, our government should be able to piece that together. And what happens when these individuals stop using Gmail and sh!t and just start meeting face to face? You know what happens? Our governments surveil suspicious targets, work with informants, and take these individuals down. There is still room for tech to utilized where needed, but this is some old give an inch take a mile sh!t.
Lets be clear here. We are talking about people having their privacy invaded under the guise that they are being protected. Meaning, if some governemnt official decides that Dunkin Donuts is a codeword for the phrase "Death to America." then they can start intercepting your emails regardless if that phrase actually means that and whether or not YOU knew it meant that. That is ridiculous. We aren't saying that you can't watch a site. No one is saying that you shouldn't investigate someone who visits WeLikeToBlowSh!tUp.com. We are saying that we have the technology and the know how to sustain an investigation without stealing everyone's instagram password. Sh!t is ridiculous and you are ridiculous for taking some silly ass Enemy of the State approach like you are buying into it.
i would go out on a limb and BET if you had 100 terrorist home grown or otherwise. 95% of them use cell phones to order their products to do damage with OR use the internet.
you said if they buy things thats how they can get caught. i said that myself. but people buy things ON...LINE now more so then face to face.
if i'm in america, i dont know how to make a homemade gadget, but some fool on some AL Q site is showing me HOW TO take out a bunch of people on the cheap. if left up to you. the govvy would not be able to see that, because to see that kind of transfer of video data and clicks to that shady site, would also mean they could see you on the porn site every other night. which is a privacy problem.
i'm not telling you i trust the govyy. cause i dont. and yes they will abuse this stuff. they always have. power is always abused. never fails.
but what i am saying is yall have to be realistic. we are no longer in the stone ages. computers are here to stay, so is the internet. so are cell phones and things going over the net via the cloud, etc.
so is social media websites. the more people get use to using this stuff. the more lax they get about hiding the fact what they are doing by not using this stuff.
its like i'm real grown. so everytime i see a kid on facebook blowing big herb and sippin on something. i'm thinking..idiot your mom is watching you. but they dont think like that because FB is second nature to them. FB to kids today is like me and you having a conversation in person. we cant comprehend this. them text messaging each other is like me and you whispering in each others ear. to me you wont ever catch me texting something i dont want the world to know. you can pull any text i have ever sent. and i wouldnt be shocked if my wife, mother, pastor or the cops seen them. you know why, cause if i'm doing something i aint got no business doing, i know better then to put it over the wire. i'm old school like that. now granted they could easily trace me on some video site looking at something unsavory. cause i've done that more times then i've should have. and even that is because i'm getting to USE to the new tech myself.
your ipad, cell phone, laptop. is all one big SNITCH BOX. facebook, youtube, google chrome, IE, firefox, etc are all snitch boxes. thats why its funny when people talk about the kinect sensor for xbox 360 or xbox one. like its new. we have been our own big brother for the past few years and we dont even realize it.
people are afraid of google glasses as if people are not currently shouting WORLDSTAR, while they record you on their cell phones doing something ridiculous.